Ideas

"We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, ...
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"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself." - Rita Mae Brown ...
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"The first 40 years of life give us the text; the next 30 supply the commentary." - Arthur Schopenhauer ...
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"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding; I want the understanding which bringeth peace." - Helen Keller ...
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"Don’t worry about the people in your past. There is a reason why they didn’t make it to your future." ...
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"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die." - Eleanor Roosevelt ...
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"Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned." - Charlotte Bronte ...
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Nelson Mandela ...
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"Truth has a power of its own....A poem can inspire a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution. Civil disobedience can arouse people and provoke us to think." - Howard Zinn ...
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"There is no great difference in the reality of one country or another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, or may have a different education or position. But they are ...
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