"The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action."

-- Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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“Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.”
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.”

Source : Du Contrat Social bk. 1, ch. 1 (1762)
“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.”
“Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?”
“We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.”
“We're born naked, and the rest is drag.”

Source : "The subversive genius of RuPaul". Interview with Owen Myers, www.dazeddigital.com. June 01, 015.
“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.”

Source : John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”
“Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as if you were him or her. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding.”

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