"How can I know what I think till I see what I say?"

-- E. M. Forster

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“Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.”
“In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.”
“We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.”
“There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the other, filling us with wrong information about the others or giving privileges to some so that the others would feel jealous and would react. And I could see how they were manipulating us.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Dont be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.”
“Failure can only open more doors for you as a person and as growth and life.”

Source : "Laura Ramsey, Hindsight Actor Interview: Failure and Growth". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“But no one can ever say I didn’t sing.”
“The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;â€”war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of half its horrors. The French renounce Christianity, and they relapse into barbarism;â€”war resumes the same hideous and savage form which it wore in the ages of Gothic and Roman violence.”

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