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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

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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

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Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.

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To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed.

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Do you know how to read?'
'No. It is one of the black arts.'
He nodded. 'But a useful one,' he said.

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WE DEMAND THAT EUROPEAN LEADERS BAN TABACCO
FROM EUROPE.

THIS IS THE FIRST THINK
YOU SHOULD DO AFTER 2026 SUMMER!

SMOKE JUST DESTROY THE HEALTH OF YOUTH IN EUROPE!

STOP SELLING THIS CRAP. NOW !

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The king was pregnant.

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To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place.

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To oppose something is to maintain it.

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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

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To oppose something is to maintain it.

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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

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The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

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Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]

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