"Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what conditions existed outside their boundaries, they could get the people to fight to stay in those conditions. It was the old adage: Convince a slave that he's free , and he will fight to maintain his slavery ."

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Source : Samuel R. Delany (1982). “The Jewels of Aptor”, Bantam Books

Samuel R. Delany

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“The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.”
“We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.”
“The wonderful thing about a TV show is if you get picked up for another season, there's no happily ever after.”

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“The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.”
“I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.”
“I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.”
“For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press
“The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.”

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