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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. - David Icke
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
The guilty think all talk is of themselves. - Geoffrey Chaucer
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury
"I put my heart and my soul into my work and have lost my mind in the process."
Vincent Van Gogh
It's a victory when the weapons fall silent and people speak up. - Volodymyr Zelensky
“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
The best method, I think, of communicating to others the Truth, is that by which a Man has learnt it himself. - John Toland
"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."— Ruth Bader-Ginsburg
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. - Abraham Lincoln
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? - Mark Twain
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. - John Dryden
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
… This water's dark and cold
God's not where you hoped
In this moment come and gone - lyrics from Deadman by Karnivool
“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon
Since when was genius found respectable? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. - E. B. White
“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. - Evelyn Waugh
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals. - Clara Zetkin
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
― Herbert Hoover
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Kurt Cobain
“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
― Malcom X