"It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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“To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.”
“Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!”
“A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.”

Source : Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland (1855). “A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.232
“â€¦â€œwhite supremacyâ€ is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term â€œinternalized racismâ€- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term â€œwhite supremacyâ€ enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise â€œwhite supremacist controlâ€ over other black people.”
“Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.”
“There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.”
“I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.”

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