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Frank Herbert quote: "You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've..."
You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening. Frank Herbert
I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people, have bought into the false dream of convenience, and turned away from a deep engagement with our internal lives—those fountains of inconvenient feeling—and toward the frantic enticements of what our friends in the Greed Business call the Free Market. We’re hurtling through time and space and information faster and faster, seeking that network connection. But at the same time we’re falling away from our families and... Cheryl Strayed
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain. James Baldwin
It may be in the cultural particularities of people? in their oddities? that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found. Clifford Geertz
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. Arthur Miller
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other. Aldous Huxley
Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship. Doris Lessing
John Stuart Mill quote: "One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only..."
One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests. John Stuart Mill
Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal light, and on this basis his companions appeared to be tolerable examples of local color and national character. Truman Capote
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of..."
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up? David Herbert Lawrence
Bill Bennett quote: "Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting..."
Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out. Bill Bennett
Mercedes Lackey quote: "There are more nasty things in pretty packages in the world..."
There are more nasty things in pretty packages in the world than most people would believe. Mercedes Lackey
It is arguable that when Humanists, "Shook off," as people say, "the trammels of religion," and discovered things of this world as objects of veneration in their own right... they began to lose the finer appreciation of even the world itself. Thus to the Christian centuries, the flesh was holy (or sacer at least in one sense or the other), and they veiled its awful majesty; to the Humanist centuries it was divine in its own right, and they exhibited it. Now it is the commonplace of the... Dorothy L. Sayers
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life Ursula K. Le Guin
Mitch Albom quote: "What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many..."
What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there. Mitch Albom

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