"In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both."

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Source : Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.52

Maria Edgeworth

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“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia. The friends of a free government cannot be too watchful, to overcome the dangerous tendency of the public mind to sacrifice, for the sake of mere private convenience, this powerful check upon the designs of ambitious men..”
“Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle.”

Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”
“Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great height, there is only one possible place to land: on the ground-the ground of truth. And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jul 24, 2015
“So it sort of dawned on me that you have to build into your work the fact that it's going to be shown in different kinds of places and different kinds of light. And the fact that the surroundings and where you're going to be shown is always changing, so that should really not affect the meaning of the work. It should be part of what the work is about.”
“But it's never just been the journals that have made the difference, I don't think. It's also the way the students are with one anotherÂ .Â .Â . the way they talk about books and authors and themselves. Not just their problems, but their passions too. The way they form a little society and discuss whatever matters to them. Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.”
“The sun don't shine forever, but as long as it's here, then we might as well shine together.”

Source : Song: Victory 2004, Album: No Way Out
“Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.”
“By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.”

Source : Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.155, Penguin

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