"It is funny you know, you spend 12 years of your life learning about things and about life, but they never really tell you how hard life really is."

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Amanda Peterson

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“Capitalism is in crisis.”
“There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.”
“Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
“Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.”
“Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.”
“The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind.”
“But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.”
“Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.”

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