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| | Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
—Marshall McLuhan |
| | The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
—Mark Twain |
| | The assumption of being an individual is our greatest limitation.
—Pir Vilayat Khan |
| | The land! Don’t you feel it? Doesn’t it make you want to go out and lift dead Indians tenderly from their graves, to steal from them—as if it must be clinging even to their corpses—some authenticity.
—William Carlos Williams |
| | Do we have the right here in the United States to say that we’re going to kill tens of thousands, make millions of people, as we have, refugees, kill women and children, as we have! I very seriously question whether we have that right.
—Robert Kennedy, 1967 |
| | It is no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.
—Martin Luther KIng, Jr. |
| | The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to emotionally comprehend the exponential function.
—Edward Teller |
| | The relation between morality and imagination may be a complicated one, but it does exist. Hope, forgiveness — these are not just moral actions. They are enlargements of the mind. Without them, you remain in the tunnel of the self.
—Joan Acocella |
| | All colonization, all occupation, all repression basically looks the same, whoever is doing it.
—Alice Walker |
| | I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
—William James |
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