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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
~Herman Hesse
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us"
~Herman Hesse
"You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie."
~Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
"Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence."
~Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity.â€
~Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously."
~Peter Ustinov
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
~Voltaire
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
~Anatole France
"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them."
~Edward R. Murrow
"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."
~HL Mencken
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
~George Orwell (1984)
"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same—everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world."
~George Orwell (1984)
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
~Dr. Seuss
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed."
~Herman Melville
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