"As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness."

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Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#Kindness Quotes #People Quotes #Half Quotes

“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
“The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.”

Source : The Concept of Mind ch. 1 (1949)
“Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.”
“When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big party and see one of the popular girls or football players completely wasted and puking and acting a fool, and think to myself, there is nothing cool about that. I never wanted to be that out of control.”
“Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.”
“I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.”

Source : "Tor Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden On the Future of SF Books". Interview with Annalee Newitz, io9.com. August 26, 2009.
“The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.”
“More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our cultureâ€™s relationship to nature.”

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