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The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by submitting to it is simply a flight from fact. As I have said, it is only possible to people who have money and guns between themselves and reality. George Orwell
I used to get a big kick out of saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway.' Oh, there's a point, all right,' Dunbar assured him. Is there? What is the point?' The point is to keep them from dying for as long as you can.' Yeah, but what's the point, since they all have to die anyway?' The trick is not to think about that. Joseph Heller
I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you. Jennifer Weiner
J. D. Salinger quote: "If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me..."
If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable. J. D. Salinger
Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief. Orhan Pamuk
It's just that I know the world is so wide and full of people and exciting things that I just go crazy every day stuck in these institutions. I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes lots of training. You have to start very young. Elaine Dundy
Bertrand Russell quote: "No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues."
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. Bertrand Russell
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do. Herman Hesse
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. Stephen King
Whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, and wiser people are full of doubts George Bernard Shaw
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions. Albert Camus
...it was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder; it was a simple, urgent matter of public pride, a matter of how much I had in common with other people. Richard Wright
Barack Obama quote: "We are a people of improbable hope."
We are a people of improbable hope. Barack Obama
Art Linkletter quote: "The best things happen to people who make the best of things..."
The best things happen to people who make the best of things that happen to them. Art Linkletter
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice. John Adams

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