"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."

Power, Discipline

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"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."

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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Think you're a slave and you'll find a master, think you're a master and slaves will find you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

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"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

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"The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."

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"I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight."

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"He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand."

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"A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big."

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"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."

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"She was appalled by West Egg's raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand."

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"No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there."

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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

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"Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower."

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"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."

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"He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows."

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