"The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them."

-- Kevin Powers

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“I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.”
“Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.”

Source : Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.288, Courier Corporation
“You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for governments that are autocratic and don't have broad popular support to be in power when a lot of people have these devices. That was what Arab Spring was about, that people could express this and lead to revolution.”
“The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.”

Source : Edward L. Bernays (2013). “Public Relations”, p.116, University of Oklahoma Press
“I would love for people to know that the label feminist is something that everyone should wear proudly, because it just means that you support women.”

Source : "The Hot Seat: Daily Show contributor Kristen Schaal". Interview with Sarah Theeboom, www.timeout.com. June 12, 2012.
“Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.”

Source : "Girl Scouts Changed the World 100 Years Ago - Now it's Our Turn" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.
“The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.”
“You can move beyond the ego's perspective and see reality from the perspective of a higher consciousness.”

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