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“We do not have to get rid of consumer-capitalist society before we can begin to build the new way. The way to replace the old system is to ignore it to death.”
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“What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?”
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“I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebody besides a theological bookworm to tell me; somebody who is sometimes tempted and tried, and is not too dignified to own it; somebody like me, who is always sinning and repenting; somebody who is glad and sorry, and cries and laughs, and eats and drinks, and wants to fight when they are trodden on, and don't!”
Source : Fanny Fern (2017). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.90, Litres
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“I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano”
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“if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.”
Source : Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Artists in Crime: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #6”, p.122, Felony & Mayhem Press
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“Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape,”
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“The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.”
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“Love is not a feeling, but an action.”
Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
