"If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.”
“Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.”
“I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.”

Source : Patrick MacGill (2008). “The Amateur Army”, Forbes Press
“Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.”

Source : Martin Farquhar Tupper (1846). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.23
“Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.”

Source : "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 1), 1938.
“Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.”

Source : Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Profiles in Courageous Manhood”, Albury Pub
“We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.”
“We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.”

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