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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will...

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Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are t...

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I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still ...

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We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulat...

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It is the lies he's telling her - as he has been, Nassun understands suddenly, her whole life - that...

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He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get throug...

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I am already living, but something is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living ...

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The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becom...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It...

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The student’s biggest problem was a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering...

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There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place t...

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The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a be...

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