"World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it"

Pilgrim, Peace on peace
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"The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on world   

"The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on world   

"Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on past   

"Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on deeds and good deeds
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"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."

Eastman, Max on art   

"Art is science made clear."

Cocteau, Jean on art
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"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."

Miller, Henry on art
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"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."

Proust, Marcel on art   

"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on hope
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"I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly."

Farquhar, George on ridicule   

"Poetry is a mere drug, Sir."

Farquhar, George on poetry and poets   

"Those who know the least obey the best."

Farquhar, George on obedience
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"A riot is the language of the unheard."

King Jr. Martin Luther on rebellion
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"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."

Frost, Robert on radicals
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"Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest."

Arafat, Yaser on rebellion
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"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist."

Camus, Albert on existence   

"What is a rebel? A man who says no."

Camus, Albert on rebellion
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"Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh."

Brice, Fanny on jokes and jokers
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"When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away."

Proverb, English on rebellion
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Hoffer, Eric on affectation
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"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem."

Hoffer, Eric on self-esteem
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"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."

Frost, Robert on failure
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"Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on time
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"I hate victims who respect their executioners."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on respectability
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"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."

Balzac, Honore De on equality
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on love
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"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"Who so loves believes the impossible."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on love
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"A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead."

Baudrillard, Jean on events   

"Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power."

Baudrillard, Jean on depression
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"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity."

Baudrillard, Jean on love
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"Hell is other people."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on hell
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on decisions
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"Life begins on the other side of despair."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on despair
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on fascism
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"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on freedom
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"To eat is to appropriate by destruction."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on food and eating   

"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on generosity   

"The fool needs company, the wise solitude."

Ruckett on fools and foolishness
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