"There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms."

-- Wendell Phillips

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“I suggest that all who listen to my voice would benefit by an examination of the lives of those we sustain as general officers of the Church. You will find some important examples among them and come to know those who have "a perfect heart."”
“Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.”
“I'm a passionate person, and I care deeply about the work I do. It's very, very important to me that it's well received.”
“Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.”

Source : "Tuck Everlasting". Book by Natalie Babbitt, www.npr.org. 1975.
“I'm happy because I got another medal. It's a competition and it's ice and anything can happen.”
“Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies or problems...I have embarked on this geometric problem again and again over the years, trying to throw light on different aspects each time. I cannot imagine what my life would be like if this problem had never occurred to me; one might say that I am head over heels in love with it, and I still don't know why.”
“When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.”

Source : "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Cambridge edition, p. 108, 1995.

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