"Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it."

-- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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“You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. . . But I may flout the standards? . . . Of course. What do you think standards are for?”
“I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you - oh you, who the wildest yearn For an old-time step, and the glad return, Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here. Think of him still as the same. I say, He is not dead - he is just away.”

Source : James Whitcomb Riley (1982). “The Best of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.107, Indiana University Press
“To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.167, Psychology Press
“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”
“I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.”
“Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened to people that they see or hear something quite wonderful and then they are never altogether the same again.”

Source : E. Nesbit (2015). “Fairy Tales for Young Readers: By the Author of Shakespeare's Stories for Young Readers”, p.50, Courier Corporation
“People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artists feelings are merely raw material.”
“I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.”

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