"Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy."

Society, Jeopardy, World

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"Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?"

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Society, Economy, Consent, Education, Awareness

"Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Society, Prison, Love, Compassion, Regulation

"Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?"

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Society, Identity, Belonging, Truth, Modernity

"Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Society, Poverty, Wealth, Perspective, Gratitude

"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."

Stephen Hawking, English Physicist

Society, Celebrity, Recognition, Privacy, Life

"A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Society, Church, Abuse, Victims, Media

"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Society, Praise, Criticism, Irony, Judgment

"The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness."

Henry A. Kissinger, American Statesman

Society, Loneliness, Nixon

"I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America."

Max Baucus, American Politician

Society, America, Help, Saying, Senate

"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

Society, Energy, People, World, Connection

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"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."

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"Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire."

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"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid."

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"One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart."

Heart

"The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs."

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"Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."

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"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."

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"Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?"

"Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?"

"Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough."

"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."

"A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse."

"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."

"The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness."

"I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America."

"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."

"Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire."

"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live."

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid."

"One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart."

"The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs."

"Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."