"The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it"

-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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“Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.”

Source : "The Death of Rachel Corrie" by Joshua Hammer, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2003.
“I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.”
“So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.”
“I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.”
“There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.”
“War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.”
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
“Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.”

Source : "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram, p. 188, 1974.

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