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Susan Sontag

"Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more."

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"Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more."

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"The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!"

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"We are all same, inside our homes!"

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"I would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings."

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"And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield."

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"The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot."

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"Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch."

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"There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good."

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"If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!"

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Amber Hurdle

"This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"

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Amber Hurdle

"It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that."

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"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
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