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• life
• usefulness
• rights

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this. Eleanor Roosevelt

• thinking you
• thinking
• understanding

I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that's only my own thinking and not you. Charles Manson

• men
• new
• world

Men don't change. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. Harry S. Truman

• good
• thinking
• value

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value. Herman Hesse

• self
• god
• doubt

Beginning to doubt the gods, there is only Atman...and where is Atman found but in the self? But where is this self? Herman Hesse

• life
• saying
• play

So scared of getting older. I'm only good at being young. So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun. John Mayer

• time
• poetry
• drama

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. Henry Miller

• respect
• him
• evening

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering. I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong. Besides, too high a price is asked for harmony; it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it. And so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket, and if I am an honest man I am bound to... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• wishes
• my everything
• woman

Oh! How like a woman," Davey said. "Sex, my dear Sadie, is not a sovereign cure for everything, you know. I only wish it were. Nancy Mitford

• life
• she
• dirty

She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain. Hunter S. Thompson

• real
• passed
• passes

Don't pass it by--the immediate, the real, the only, the yours. Henry James

• good
• conversational
• likely

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. Edith Wharton

• humanity
• political
• experience

Politics is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience you have, the worse you get. Kinky Friedman

• history
• political
• goals

...nothing that is historical can relate itself, from its own ground, to anything messianic. Therefore, the Kingdom of God is not the telos of the historical dynamic; it cannot be established as a goal. From the standpoint of history, it is not the goal but the terminus [Ende]. Therefore, the secular order cannot be built on the idea of the Divine Kingdom, and theocracy has no political but only a religious meaning. Walter Benjamin

• manly
• current events
• floating

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer Otto von Bismarck