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• Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination is replaced by equity in a shift or substitution of institutions. That shift eventually forms new human relationships, both personally and across society.

  Lierre Keith

  Hurt, Powerful, Simple

  Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.208, Seven Stories Press

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• Unfortunatelymost westerners form their opinions of Africa based on the reporting and news in their own countries

  Louise Mushikiwabo

  Country, News, Opinion

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• I think something must happen to you when you get into eight grade. Like the Doug Swieteck's Brother Gene switches on and you become a jerk.
  Which may have been Hamlet, Prince of Denmark's problem, who, besides having a name that makes him sound like a breakfast special at Sunnyside Morning Restaurant--something between a ham slice and a three-egg omelet--didn't have the smarts to figure out that when someone takes the trouble to come back from beyond the grave to tell you that he's been murdered, it's probably behooveful to pay attention--which is the adjectival form.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Morning, Brother, Smart

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• All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline.

  Douglas Groothuis

  Yoga, Discipline, Assumption

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• Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.

  Lawrence Venuti

  Play, Favors, Lasts

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• Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter. It is, in many ways, the most powerful form of free speech because it is aimed at those in power, or those whose ideas would spread hate. It is the canary in the coalmine, a cultural thermometer, and it always has to push, push, push the boundaries of society to see how much it’s grown.

  Joe Randazzo

  Powerful, Laughter, Hate

  "Former 'Onion' editor: Freedom of speech cannot be killed" by Joe Randazzo, www.msnbc.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.

  Bessel van der Kolk

  Past, Self, Bombarded By

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• Writing is transcendental. It is a form of expression, a form of art that you can take anywhere. That you can do anywhere. It poses the deepest questions in the universe. It generates emotion. It elicits empathy, promotes learning, creates an intellect you simply cannot get from any other medium. For me, it is air.

  Darynda Jones

  Art, Writing, Air

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• They always try to make it like jocks discriminate against gay people. I've been a big proponent of gay marriage for a long time, because as a black person, I can't be in for any form of discrimination at all.

  Charles Barkley

  Gay, Long, People

  "Charles Barkley: I Had Gay Teammates". www.espn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole
  society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hands, People, Sadism

  Allen Ginsberg, Louis Ginsberg, Michael Schumacher (2002). “Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Anyone who falls in love is a freak.  Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.

  Amy Adams

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Insanity

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• Fetishes are literally viewed as fake forms of attraction. The fetish concept is used to delegitimatize attraction to any and all bodies that are not considered normative. This is why people are accused to have transgender fetishes and fat fetishes and disability fetishes, but never cisgender fetishes, thin fetishes or able-bodied fetishes. Even in cases in which the person in question exclusively partners with these latter groups.

  Julia Serano

  People, Fake, Groups

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• I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

  Judi Dench

  Mind, Diaries, Done

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• We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

  Van Jones

  Oil, Global Warming, Plant

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• I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

  Keanu Reeves

  Movie, Thinking, Quality

  "Actor Keanu Reeves". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

  Kim Stanley

  Despair, Defense, Patterns

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• I'd like to form a club just for fathers. Specifically, fathers of daughters. There would be lots of overstuffed leather chairs, wood paneling, dim lights. The works.

  Steve Schirripa

  Daughter, Father, Light

  Steve Schirripa (2014). “Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Laughter, Acceptance, Found

  "Gabriel Iglesias: Funny, 'Hot And Fluffy'". "Tell Me More" with Viviana Hurtado, www.npr.org. June 28, 2012.

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• Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.

  Ron Livingston

  Office Space, Eight, Boss

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• Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

  Lucy Liu

  Art, Dedication, Discipline

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.

  Marianne Williamson

  War, Race, Mass Destruction

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• That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Art, Talking, Modern

  "Ryan Kwanten: Kwanten Leap" by Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. November 18, 2010.

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• Surfers are the ‘throw-aheads’ of mankind, not the dregs; they aren’t the black sheep of humanity, but the futurists and they are leading the way to where man ultimately wants to be. The act of the ride is the epitome of ‘be here now’, and the tube ride is the most acute form of that. Which is: your future is right ahead of you, the past is exploding behind you, your wake is disappearing, your footprints are washed from the sand. It’s a non-productive, non-depletive act that’s done purely for the value of the dance itself. And that is the destiny of man.

  Timothy Leary

  Past, Destiny, Men

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• The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Purpose, Citizenship

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.301, Best Books on

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• There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Art, Might, Stills

  "Portrait of the artist: Vanessa Paradis, actor and musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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