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“When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.”
Source : Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com
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“Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obstacle to the transformation of this statement into its opposite.”
Source : Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.19, A&C Black
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“I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.”
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“Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.”
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“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.”
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“The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life”
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“I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?”
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“You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.”
Source : Lu Xun (2014). “Selected Essays of Master Lu Xun”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
