"The Internet is an Ã©lite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call."

-- Noam Chomsky

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“People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.”
“Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.”
“The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.”
“I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!”
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
“The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.”

Source : "Unkempt Thoughts" as translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.
“You have to embark on your own quest to discover why you are on this planet, what makes you get out of bed in the morning, and what you uniquely contribute to the world.”
“The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .”

Source : Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.227, Ultramarine Publishing

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