"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on love
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"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing."

Berger, John on poverty and the poor
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life."

Caesar, Julius on creativity
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"It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere."

Voltaire on freedom
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"I love the name of honor, more than I fear death."

Caesar, Julius on honor
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"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

Rohn, Jim on education
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"Truth is its own reward."

Plato on truth
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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Shakespeare, William on names
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"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

Biko, Steven on oppression
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"We need less freedom of religion and more freedom from religion!"

Kwende Madu on religion   

"The world is in balance <...>. To light a candle is to cast a shadow."

LeGuin, Ursula K. on balance
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"What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?"

Bible on power
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"Imaginations builds Creativeness builds Passions builds Researches builds Inventions. "

Shah Ishtiaq (Real Scientist) on imaginations   

"“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” "

Edison, Thomas A. on   

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

Curie, Madame Marie on life
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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

Fromm, Erich on uncertainty
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"If you are going through hell, keep going."

Churchill, Winston on running
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"Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war."

Selassie, Haile on racism   

"Action is eloquence."

Shakespeare, William on action
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"The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters."

Khan, Genghis on pleasure   

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

Clarke, Arthur C. on possibilities
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"It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse."

Unknown, Source on desire
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"The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable."

Vanbrugh, Sir John on desire   

"You are what your deep driving desire is."

Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka on desire
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"It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."

Shakespeare, William on words   

"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."

Link, Henry C. on mistakes
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"America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting."

Burroughs, William S. on america
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"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games."

Burroughs, William S. on universe
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