"In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear."

Breyten Breytenbach, South African Writer

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"In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear."

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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

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"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."

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"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath."

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"Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness."

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"Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War."

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"The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests."

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"The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests."

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"It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal."

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"It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are."

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