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"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
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"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"

"Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?"

"Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your feeling so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been mistake to label this "love". It was more like total empathy."

"The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance."

"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."

"Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower."

"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."
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"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."

"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."

"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."

"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."

"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."

"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."

"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."

"I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet."

"I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?"
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