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"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
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"Quite like religious fundamentalism, educational fundamentalism is based upon bookish creeds created by the self-proclaimed authority figures of the system. And this very fundamentalism is the cause of all the growing conflicts between the student-body of the education society and the teachers running that society. These conflicts further become tools of exploitation in the hands of a handful of war-mongering, authoritarian, blood-sucking politicians."

"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."

"Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act."

"Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!"

"You can carry out a spiritual revolution by making God's truth the head of everything."

"If this generation doesn't end...then change towards a better one will be delayed."

"Real education is about revolution."

"The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow."

"It doesn't matter if most people refuse to understand nor support my efforts, not at all, it doesn't at all matter. What matters is, I am pioneering a revolution."

"The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness."
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"The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them."

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

"You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river's relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identity. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been."

"They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they (...) become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls."

"And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life."

"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."

"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
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