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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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"Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace
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One shouldn’t be surprised if political leaders seek to silence dissent, especially during a time of perceived threat. The US government has a well-established history of silencing dissent and jailing dissenters during declared wars, such as World Wars I and II and during the “Red Scares” of the 1920s and 1950s.

Whenever leaders call for national unity and say that “everyone should get behind the president” (or king, or czar, or dictator) we should be very apprehensive about the fate of liberty.
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- Jack D. Forbes, “Columbus and Other Cannibals” (2008 edition, pp. 124-5.)
 
Postmodernism advertises itself as pluralistic, tolerant, and non-dogmatic. In practice it is a superficial, fast-forward, deliberately confused, fragmented, media-obsessed, illiterate, fatalistic, uncritical excrescence, indifferent to questions of origins, agency, history or causation. It questions nothing of importance and is the perfect expression of a setup that is stupid and dying and wants to take us with it.
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- from "We Have to Dismantle All This", by Anti-Authoritarians Anonymous (1995). Quoted in Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections edited by John Zerzan. Enlarged edition. Los Angeles: Feral Press, 2005, page 257.
 
Self-help techniques can be enormously rewarding for some people, and self-evident for others. Gurus such as Tony Robbins make fortunes from motivational courses that are both amazing and sinister, but which boil down to an age-old and obvious adage: just get on with it. It’s about do or don’t do.
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Derren Brown ‘Tricks of the Mind’
 
George Bernard Shaw on society’s regard for scientists:
The omniscience, infallibility, and incorruptible truthfulness formerly reserved for an ideal variously called God, Allah, Brahma, etc., is transferred to every Tom, Dick, or Harriet who has cut up a dog or a guinea pig in a laboratory, and written a book or a paper describing how the unfortunate animal responded.
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– from “Everybody’s Political What’s What?” (1944)
 
These are some quotes of Acceptance:

"There is only one corner of the universe that you can certainly change, and that is you." Aldous Leonard Huxley

"If we do not change, we do not grow. If we do not grow, we do not live. "Mr. SIHI
"If we change our minds, the world around us is changing." Richard Bach
"If you do not like something, change it. If you can not change, then change your attitude. Just do not complain! "Maya Angelou
"If you want to create enemies, try to change something." VT Wilson
"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. "F. Herbert


"Be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi
"Man can not discover new ocean if you lack the courage to lose sight of the shore." André Gide
"The man who does not change his mind or is very wise or a fool." Chinese proverb
"When it becomes more difficult to endure than change it - then you are going to change." Anon
"With men it is easier to cry than to change it." D. Baldwin
"We can change our lives only in that split second of eternity which we now belong. If at one time we step away from this now, in another to decide. "Richard Bach
"You will never change your life until you change something you do every day." M. Murdock
"It was not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. V. Edwards Deming
"The mountain will move only one who initially moved the stones." Chinese proverb
"The first step toward change is awareness; second is acceptance. "N. Branden
"Change what you can change, accept what you can not, and move away from what is unacceptable." D. Waite


"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." Confucius
"There is only one corner of the universe that you can certainly change, and that is you." Aldous Leonard Huxley

"The art of life lies in a constant adjustment to the environment." Öküz
 
If you are the publisher of a great newspaper or magazine, you belong to the ruling-class of your community. You are invited to a place of prominence on all public occasions; your voice is heard whenever you choose to lift it. You may become a senator like Medill McCormick or Capper of Kansas, who owns eight newspapers and six magazines; a cabinet-member like Daniels, or an ambassador like Whitelaw Reid or Walter Page. You will float upon a wave of prosperity, and in this prosperity all your family will share; your sons will have careers open to them, your wife and your daughters will move in the “best society”. All this, of course, provided that you stand in with the powers that be, and play the game according to their rules. If by any chance you interfere with them, if you break their rules, then instantly in a thousand forms you feel the pressure of their displeasure.
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- Upton Sinclair – The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism. 1936 edition, page 258 (first published 1920).
 
Being prepared is important, to know what to expect even more, but seize the right time is the key to life. "Arthur Schnitzler"
 
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