Queen
‘I’m one card short of a full deck, I’m not quite the shilling, one wave short of a shipwreck, I’m not my usual top billing … this kettle is boiling over, I think I’m a banana tree … I’m knitting with only one needle, unravelling fast it’s true … I’m driving only three wheels these days‘
– from ‘I’m going slightly mad’.
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‘ ... I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning – very very frightening me
Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo, Gallileo Figaro – magnifico … ‘
– from ‘Bohemian Rhapsody‘
Mary Anne Radmacher
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regrets. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
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Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
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‘Stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense and believe you can achieve things which are impossible’.
Rain
The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I’m planning to test my own boundaries.
Simon Rattle
What really counts isn’t whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it’s your mindset.
John Ray
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Mario Reading
When people didn’t feel guilt, they built empires. When they began to feel guilt, they lost them. Look at the British.
Helen Reddy
‘It’s so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain’.
Robert Redford
Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever – it struck a nerve.
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‘He has the attention span of a lightning bolt’.
Lou Reed
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz.
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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
Keanu Reeves
Someone told me the other day that he felt bad for single people because they are lonely all the time. I told him that’s not true. I’m single and I don’t feel lonely. I take myself out to eat, I buy myself clothes. I have great times by myself. Once you know how to take care of yourself, company becomes an option and and not a necessity.
Rembrandt
A painting is not made to be sniffed.
Jules Renard
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Ruth E. Renkel
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.
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Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Elizabeth Reyes
I write because I must. It’s not a choice or a pastime; it’s an unyielding calling and my passion.
Shonda Rhimes
No is a powerful word. To me, it’s the single most powerful word in the English language. Said clearly, strongly and with enough frequency and force, it can alter the course of history.
Anne Rice
To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Cliff Richard
We’re all going on a summer holiday
No more working for a week or two
Fun and loughter on our summer holiday
No more worries for me or you
– from the song ‘Summer Holiday’, sung by Cliff Richard, written by Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and learn to love the questions themselves.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
Diego Rivera
I’ve never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
Anthony Robbins
I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Nora Roberts
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
Jackie Robinson
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Sugar Ray Robinson
Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that’s in rhythm or you’re in trouble
Rocky Horror Show
And crawling on the planet’s face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space, and meaning.
Sixto Rodriguez
Going down a dirty inner city side road
I plotted
Madness passed me by, she smiled hi
I nodded
Looked up as the sky began to cry
She shot it.
– Sixto Rodriguez, from Inner City Blues
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The sun is shining, as it’s always done
Coffin dust is the fate of everyone
Talking ’bout the rich folks
The poor create the rich hoax
And only late breast-fed fools believe it.
– Sixto Rodriguez, from Rich Folks Hoax
_______________
‘Now you sit there thinking feeling insecure
The mocking court jester claims there is no proven cure
Go back to your chamber, your eyes upon the wall
‘Cos you got no one to listen, you got no one to call
And you think I’m curious‘
– Sixto Rodriguez, ‘Jane S. Piddy‘.
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‘Dancing Rosemary, disappearing sister Ruth
It’s just your yellow appetite
that has you choking on the truth
You gave in, you gave out, outlived your dream of youth
And I can’t get jealous‘
– Sixto Rodriguez, Jane S. Piddy
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‘Drifting, drowning in a purple sea of doubt
You wanna hear she loves you,
but the words don’t fit the mouth
You’re a loser, a rebel, a cause without.
But don’t think me callous‘
– Sixto Rodriguez, ‘Like Janis‘
_______________
Woke up this moming with an ache in my head
Splashed on my clothes as I spilled out of bed
Opened the window to listen to the news
But all I heard was the Establishment’s Blues.
– from Establishment’s Blues
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“And don’t try to enchant me with your manner of dress
‘Cause a monkey in silk is a monkey no less”
– from Like Janis
_______________
Were you tortured by your own thirst
In those pleasures that you seek
That made you Tom the curious
That makes you James the weak?
– from Crucify Your Mind
Rutherford D. Roger
We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.
Fred Rogers
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
Will Rogers
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
Jim Rohn
Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.
_______________
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Henry Rollins
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
_______________
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
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Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
_______________
I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip.
Mickey Rooney
I’m the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
_______________
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
_______________
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
_______________
Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Theodore Roosevelt
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Tracee Ellis Ross
I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be, to inspire me and not terrify me.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.
_______________
As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the State is not far from its fall.
_______________
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
_______________
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Leo Rosten, author (1908-1997)
Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
Johnny Rotten
‘If you were to look back at me as a school kid you’d see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character’
Carl T. Rowan
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
J.K. Rowling
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
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If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Arundhati Roy
If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.
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There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
Don Miguel Ruiz
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
Rumi
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
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The wound is the place where the light enters you.
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
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That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
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Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with their heart and soul,there is no such thing as separation.
_______________
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
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The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
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The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.
_______________
Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
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When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
Bertrand Russell
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
_______________
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
_______________
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
_______________
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
David Russell
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
Russian saying
Better to be slapped with the truth, then kissed with a lie.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. (From Don Quixote)
Rafael Sabatini
‘He swung a great scimitar, before which Spaniards went down like wheat to the reaper’s sickle.’
– from ‘The Sea-Hawk’
Carl Sagan
‘One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back’.
Prakhar Sahay
I respect those that tell the truth, no matter how hard it is.
Andrei Sakharov
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
J.D. Salinger
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
_______________
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee, and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
Jerry Saltz
Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a ‘Greatest Generation’ of artists, but if we’re going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties.
George Sand
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
Carl Sandburg
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Bernie Sanders
What being a socialist means is… that you hold out… a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not based on greed… but on cooperation… where human beings can own the means of production and work together rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire.
Colonel Harlan Sanders (founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken)
‘Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.’
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‘Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles’.
Rev. Mark Sandlin
Futility: Trying to use logic to get someone to change their minds about a belief that they didn’t arrive at using logic.
Wisdom: Knowing to just walk away.
Bobby Sands
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
George Santayana
The earth has its music for those who will listen.
_______________
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Commitment is an act, not a word.
_______________
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
_______________
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
_______________
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
Virginia Satir
Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
Alexei Sayle
People think if you’ve got baggy trousers and a red nose you’re automatically funny. Didn’t work for Mussolini, did it?
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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
_______________
No good ever came from meetings: the Russian Revolution was just a meeting that got out of hand.
Rita Schiano
Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.
Egon Schiele
All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me… I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.
Saadi Shirazi
I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet. (paraphrased).
Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
_______________
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you pick up speed.
Erwin Schrödinger
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
Robert H. Schuller
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
_______________
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Howard Schultz
Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn’t have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.
Charles M. Schultz
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
John Scott
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It’s probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.
Scottish proverb
Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.
Bobby Seale
Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
Peter Seeger
I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.
_______________
It’s a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.
_______________
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
Haile Selassie I
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.
in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
_______________
‘Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.’
_______________
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
_______________
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man’s basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act – and if necessary, to suffer and die – for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
Will Self
‘He’s an enigma wrapped in a whoopee cushion’.
(describing Boris Johnson, Lord Mayor of London).
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 5AD – 65AD
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
_______________
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
_______________
I don’t consider myself bald, I’m just taller than my hair.
_______________
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.
_______________
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Yahoo Serious
In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.
– Yahoo Serious (Greg Pead), Australian comedian, from his 1988 movie ‘Young Einstein’, in which Einstein, the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom which enables him to put bubbles into beer.
Dr Seuss
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
_______________
‘Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened’.
_______________
‘Adults are obsolete children’.
Imam Shafi
I debate with others only with a desire that the truth comes out of either side. I never want the other side to lose.
Assata Shakur
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
_______________
A Revolutionary Woman Can’t Have No Reactionary Man.
William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
We’ll laugh at gilded butterflies.
_______________
For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
_______________
Dreams are a sign of ambition, since ambition is nothing more than the shadow of a dream.
_______________
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
_______________
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
_______________
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
_______________
If music be the food of love, play on.
_______________
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
_______________
Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
– from King Lear, Act 1, Scene 4
_______________
‘where we are there’s daggers in men’s smiles’.
– from Macbeth
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‘How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world’.
– from Merchant of Venice
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
_______________
Beware the Ides of March.
– The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act I Scene II, Soothsayer warning Caesar.
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‘To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole? … No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!‘
Hamlet cynically lamenting the circle of life.
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Expectation is the root of all heartache.
– Unknown. This quote is falsely attributed to William Shakespeare, however it does not appear in his works and no accurate source has been identified.
Ravi Shankar
Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.
_______________
‘Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner’.
Claude Shannon
Information is the resolution of uncertainty.
Robin Sharma
You can be dedicated to fitting in. Or you can become devoted to changing the world. But you can’t do both.
William Shatner
We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
_______________
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
_______________
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
_______________
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
_______________
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
_______________
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
_______________
I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
_______________
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
_______________
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
_______________
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
_______________
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
– (from Back to Methusulah). Later paraphrased by Australia’s 22nd Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, who said, ‘Life wasn’t meant to be easy’.
Charlie Sheen
You can’t process me with a normal brain.
Craig Sheffer
You can’t compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.
Judge Judy (Sheindlin)
Beauty fades, dumb is forever.
Mary Shelley
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
_______________
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
_______________
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
_______________
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
_______________
First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
_______________
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
_______________
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
_______________
Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
_______________
‘When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even’.
William Tecumseh Sherman
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
Gene Simmons
Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
_______________
Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.
Simon and Garfunkel
All lies and jest, still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
(From: The Boxer)
Upton Sinclair
I intend to do what little one can do to awaken the public conscience, and in the meantime I am not frightened by your menaces.
Tanu B. Singh
Time is like a river, you cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass again.
Sioux Indian Chief
Civilization has been thrust upon me … and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.
Edith Sitwell
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Grace Slick
Things change so fast, you can’t use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
_______________
In loyalty to their kind
They cannot tolerate our minds
(from Jefferson Airplane song, ‘Crown of Creation’)
Adam Smith
Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
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Good roads, canals and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those in the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that account, the greatest of all improvements. (From Wealth of Nations).
Dodie Smith
Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
Quote about Sir Charles Kingsford Smith:
Hats off to Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, a great aviator and a man. He has just done another great service for Australia in blazing his air trail over the Pacific. Other men who serve Australia receive big salaries, why not “Smithy”? Better to pin a flower on his coat now than to send him a wreath when he has gone.
– Letter by unknown writer, signed as ‘Cheerio’, published in the Courier Mail, 22 November 1934.
Will Smith
If you are not making someone else’s life better, then you are wasting your time. Your life will become better by making others lives better.
Lemony Snicket
A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.
Ralph Sockman.
‘Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow’.
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
_______________
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
_______________
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
_______________
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
_______________
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
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We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers … we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
_______________
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
_______________
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
_______________
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
_______________
‘It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations’.
_______________
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
_______________
‘A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny’.
_______________
‘You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power … he’s free again’.
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‘You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power’.
– Sonmi-451 [quoting Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn], in the movie Cloud Atlas
Sophocles
How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to he that is wise.
Tony Soprano
There’s no geographical solution to an emotional problem.
(From The Sopranos, Season 6, Part 2, episode 4)
Bianca Sparacino
Be alone. Eat alone, take yourself on dates, sleep alone. In the midst of this you will learn about yourself. You will grow, you will figure out what inspires you, you will curate your own dreams, your own beliefs, your own stunning clarity, and when you do meet the person who makes your cells dance, you will be sure of it, because you are sure of yourself.
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Happiness turned to me and said, ‘It is time. It is time to forgive yourself for all the things you did not become. It is time to exonerate yourself for all the people you couldn’t save, for all the fragile hearts you fumbled with in the dark of your confusion. It is time, child, to accept that you don’t have to be who you were a year ago, that you don’t have to want the same things. Above all else, it is time to believe, with reckless abandon, that you are worthy of me, for I have been waiting for years’.
Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.
Regina Spektor
Taking steps is easy, standing still is hard.
Baruch Spinoza
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Benjamin Spock
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
John Shelby Spong
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
Bruce Springsteen
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
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“Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold
We swore blood brothers against the wind
I’m ready to grow young again”
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It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
Spy Kids
Do you think God stays in heaven because he too, lives in fear of what he’s created here on Earth.
– Dr Romero (Steve Buscemi), Spy Kids II – Island of Lost Dreams
Joseph Stalin
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
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It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
Paul Stanley
There’s a difference between standing up and telling people what you’re planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.
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Credibility is someone else’s idea of what I should be doing.
John Steinbeck
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
(From Of Mice and Men)
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
(from East of Eden)
David Steindl-Rast
It is not joy that makes us grateful, it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
Gloria Steinem
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.
Juliet Stevenson
We have a legal and moral obligation to protect people fleeing bombs, bullets and tyrants, and throughout history those people have enriched our society.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Everyone, at same time or another, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest that you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
Steve Stine
If music made sense, we wouldn’t have rock and roll.
Andrew Stockdale
Can you hear the ancient calling,
See the empires we’ve built are falling,
All we have is the human touch,
The clock is ticking even as we rush
– from Pyramid, performed by Wolfmother
Bram Stoker
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.
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Despair has its own calms.
Tom Stoppard
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn’t fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.
St Francis of Assisi
‘Preach the Gospel at all times and if necessary, use words’.
St Teresa of Avila
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Dr Sunwolf
We need at least one friend who understands what we do not say.
Teal Swan
The people who trigger us to feel negative emotion are messengers. They are the messengers for the unhealed parts of our being.
Swedish proverb
‘The best place to find a helping hand, is at the end of your own arm’.
Jonathan Swift
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
How foolish is man! He ruins the present while worrying about the future, but weeps in the future by recalling the past.
Booth Tarkington
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Barbara Brown Taylor
The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self – to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.
Ibn Taymiyyah
Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul’s moods.
Alexandra K. Tenfor
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
– from ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’.
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
I am a human being, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.
– from Heauton Timorumenos, 163BC
Mary Virginia Terhune
Never deny the babies their Christmas! It is the shining seal set upon, a year of happiness. Let them believe in Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas; or Kriss Kringle, or whatever name the jolly Dutch saint bears in your religion.
Nikola Tesla
Instinct is something that transcends knowledge.
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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
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Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
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The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‘stick’ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.
– Nikola Tesla
(I don’t usually editorialise these quotes, but I think Mr Tesla would be sadly disappointed with today’s media!)
William Makepeace Thackeray
‘There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes’.
Margaret Thatcher
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Hunter S. Thompson
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
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‘The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs.’
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‘Buy the ticket, take the ride.’
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‘I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me’.
Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence
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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
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Not till we are completely lost or turned around … do we begin to find ourselves.
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‘As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.’
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‘Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces’.
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‘If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away’
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A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.
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‘While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?’
Thucydides
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
George Francis Train
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person who dares to tell the truth is called at once lunatic and fool.
– (incorrectly ascribed to Plato. Published in Edmunds, A. C. (1871). Pen Sketches of Nebraskans – with Photographs. p. 5)
Alvin Toffler
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
J.R.R. Tolkien
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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‘I don’t know half of you half as as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve’.
– The Fellowship of the Ring, quoted from the speech by Bilbo Baggins at his eleventy-first (111th) birthday party.
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‘If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world’.
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‘It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish’.
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‘I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about’.
Eckhart Tolle
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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Realise deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make now the primary focus of your life.
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Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.
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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.
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Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
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Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
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‘Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no-one thinks of changing himself.’
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‘He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style’.
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Music is the short-hand of emotion.
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It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
Peter Tosh
Everyone is crying out for peace, yes
None is crying out for justice
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I’m a man that expects the unexpected. There’s nothing that surprises me, because I learn and I know that the Earth is my father and the fullness thereof.
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To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
Simon Toyne
“The land doesn’t care who lives on it or what language they speak or whether they’re kind to each other or not. The notion that people can betray a country is an emotional conceit as abstract as the notion of “country” itself. “Country” exists only in the minds of men, the land itself is indifferent.’” (from The Boy Who Saw)
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For if the root of the poisoned vine is not pulled out and burned away, if the seeds are allowed to scatter, the plant will grow again.
Alexandra K. Trenfor
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.
The Troggs
‘Wild thing, You make my heart sing,
you make everything … Groovy …’
Leon Trotsky
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.
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Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
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The fundamental evil of the capitalist system is not the extravagance of the possessing classes, however, disgusting that may be in itself, but the fact that in order to guarantee its right to extravagance the bourgeoisie maintains its private ownership of the means of the production, thus condemning the economic system to anarchy and decay.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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‘Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.’
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‘old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man’.
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‘Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction’.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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‘If we had had more time for discussion, we should probably have made many more mistakes’.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
John Trudell
Don’t trust anyone who isn’t angry.
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I’m just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it’s understanding of being human.
Harry S. Truman
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Seng Ts’an
If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything.
Harriet Tubman
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Mao Tse Tung
All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Alan Turing
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Desmond Tutu
Ubuntu […] speaks of the very essence of being human. [We] say […] “Hey, so-and-so has ubuntu.” Then you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, “My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours.” We belong in a bundle of life. We say, “A person is a person through other persons.”
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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When we see people as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent on recognizing the humanity in others.
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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put all together that overwhelm the world.
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If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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‘If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality’.
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‘Compassion is not just feeling with someone, but seeking to change the situation. Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action’.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
Mark Twain
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
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God created man in His own image and man, being the gentleman, returned the favor.
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Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
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I Did Not Attend the Funeral, But I Sent a Nice Letter Saying I Approved of It
– Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar – however, it has been incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
(accredited to Mark Twain)
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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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‘Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?’
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‘If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first’
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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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‘October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.’
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‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.’
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‘Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience’.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
—Attributed to Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Spurgeon, John Randolph.
refer: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
Tyler, the Creator
I think I’m cool. That’s all that matters.
Chuang Tzu
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Lao Tzu
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled.
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If you care about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner.
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If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Sun Tzu
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
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When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.