"The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real."

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Philip K. Dick

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“If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70).”

Source : Paul Neilan (2007). “Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan
“The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear all the talk of pollution and war As the people all shout and the airplane roar, So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm, And I WILL NOT HATCH!”
“You cannot call yourself patient until you are willing and able to bear things that you have no wish to bear.”
“Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working.”

Source : "Santos: 'Colombia can play a role . . . that coincides with the U.S. interest'". Interview with Juan Forero, www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.
“All beautiful things must end. Otherwise they are not beautiful.”
“Never let another man put fear in your heart.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 08, 2013
“Racism is stupid. Itâ€™s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.”
“Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.”

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