"The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth."

-- Aneurin Bevan

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“I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.”
“So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.”
“We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.”
“A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.”
“Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.”
“I hear footsteps and Four's hands wrap around my wrists. I let him pry my hands from my eyes. He encloses one of my hands perfectly between two of his. The warmth of his skin overwhelms the ache in my fingers from holding the bars. "You all right?" he asks, pressing our hands together. "Yeah." He starts to laugh.”
“See her gentle sway, a wave on the ocean could never move that way.”
“The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial conditions and processes in order to make outrages upon them not outrageous.”

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