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  Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Wisdom

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.132, Ballantine Books

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• A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Clever, Smart, Stupid

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• I just hold it down for my side, I just hold it down for my set. I just give everybody a piece of this and make do with what's left.

  Drake

  Relationship, Home, Humble

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• Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Life, Change, Differences

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• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

  Plato

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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• The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children

  Craig Kielburger

  Change, Children, Freedom

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• Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

  Dan Brown

  Lonely, Loneliness, Technology

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.

  Anna Gavalda

  Love, Relationship, Happiness

  Anna Gavalda (2005). “Someone I Loved”, p.77, Penguin

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• Every person you look at, you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking

  George Carlin

  Eye, Comedian, Looks

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• There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.

  Robert Owen

  Happiness, Happy, Men

  "The Social System - Constitution, Laws, and Regulations of a Community". Book by Robert Owen, 1826.

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• Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fear, Real, Grateful

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• It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

  Glenn Close

  Society, Actresses, Topics

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

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• Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

  Michel Foucault

  Death, Truth, Philosophy

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The Birth of the Clinic”, p.211, Routledge

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• What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, Bloodlust

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 15, 2014

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• Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

  Thomas Paine

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Enemy

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• Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Religious, Men, Catholic

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• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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• Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.

  John Trudell

  Power, Storm, Coherence

  "What it Means to be a Human Being". John Trudell's speech in San Francisco, California, www.radio4all.net. March 2001.

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• Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Experience

  Edgar Cayce (2006). “Soul & Spirit: Fully Understand Yourself and Your Life”, p.23, ARE Press

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• You are a 64-track recording - the tracks are always there, they're always with you. Sometimes the harsh tracks are cranked up and the rest are rolled down to zero. Other times the sweet tracks are high and the darkness is low. But it's all you.

  RZA

  Life, Music, Sweet

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.75, Penguin

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• Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

  Pope Francis

  Respect, Peace, Pain

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. January 27, 2015.

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• We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract from the unity of Nature, this unity remains. Although we may deal with particulars, we return finally to the whole pattern woven out of these.

  Ernest Everett Just

  Beauty, Nature, Knowing

  Ernest Everett Just (1939). “The Biology of the Cell Surface”, Taylor & Francis

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• Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

  Marianne Williamson

  Connections, Realization, Answers

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 09, 2014

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• Why can't we all just get along?

  Rodney King

  Relationship, Peace, Getting Along

  "Can’t We All Just Get Along?" by Jenna Brownson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2016.

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• They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Funny, Life, Humorous

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.31, Random House

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