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“We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“Gray.
The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes; each tiny drop of hazy rain drifting around resembled transparent molten steel, the pavement looked like it was about to burst into disconsolate tears, even the air itself was gray, so ultimate and ubiquitous that colour was everywhere around me.
Gray...”
― Nightmarish Sacrifice
The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes; each tiny drop of hazy rain drifting around resembled transparent molten steel, the pavement looked like it was about to burst into disconsolate tears, even the air itself was gray, so ultimate and ubiquitous that colour was everywhere around me.
Gray...”
― Nightmarish Sacrifice

“Nothing belongs to itself anymore.
These trees are yours because you once looked at them.
These streets are yours because you once traversed them.
These coffee shops and bookshops, these caf茅s and bars, their sole owner is you.
They gave themselves so willingly, surrendering to your perfume.
You sang with the birds and they stopped to listen to you.
You smiled at the sheepish stars and they fell into your hair.
The sun and moon, the sea and mountain, they have all left from heartbreak.
Nothing belongs to itself anymore.
You once spoke to Him, and then God became yours.
He sits with us in darkness now
to plot how to make you ours.鈥� K.K.”
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These trees are yours because you once looked at them.
These streets are yours because you once traversed them.
These coffee shops and bookshops, these caf茅s and bars, their sole owner is you.
They gave themselves so willingly, surrendering to your perfume.
You sang with the birds and they stopped to listen to you.
You smiled at the sheepish stars and they fell into your hair.
The sun and moon, the sea and mountain, they have all left from heartbreak.
Nothing belongs to itself anymore.
You once spoke to Him, and then God became yours.
He sits with us in darkness now
to plot how to make you ours.鈥� K.K.”
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“The only thing you have to do is to make your intention pure, and then whatever you think will start manifesting itself.”
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“Rise of Science Denialism
The problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, where someone like Donald Trump was allowed to rise to the level of a serious presidential candidate in 2016) have descended to such levels of ignorance that science itself is dismissed by leaders, political and religious as 鈥榓n agenda鈥�, and frightening numbers of people cling to ignorance and superstition because it suits their conservative anti-human rights views and objectives.”
― The Pink Community - The Facts
The problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, where someone like Donald Trump was allowed to rise to the level of a serious presidential candidate in 2016) have descended to such levels of ignorance that science itself is dismissed by leaders, political and religious as 鈥榓n agenda鈥�, and frightening numbers of people cling to ignorance and superstition because it suits their conservative anti-human rights views and objectives.”
― The Pink Community - The Facts
“The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work places through the quality of their works”
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“Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his patients and the human dramas they confront. In his book Letters to a Young Doctor, he said that most young people seem to be protected for a time by an imaginary membrane that shields them from horror. They walk in it every day but are hardly aware of its presence. As the immune system protects the human body from the unseen threat of harmful bacteria, so this mythical membrane guards them from life-threatening situations. Not every young person has this protection, of course, because children do die of cancer, congenital heart problems, and other disorders. But most of them are shielded鈥攁nd don鈥檛 realize it. Then, as years roll by, one day it happens. Without warning, the membrane tears, and horror seeps into a person鈥檚 life or into the life of a loved one. It is at this moment that an unexpected theological crisis presents itself.”
― Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
― Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Abraham Lincoln quoted the Scriptures in an 1858 speech to the Illinois Republican Convention. He said, 鈥� A house divided against itself cannot stand.鈥� That, I fear, is where diversity leads. If by that term we refer to love and tolerance for peoples who are different from one another, it has great validity for us. But if by diversity we mean that all of us have been given reason to resent one another. Having no common values, heritage, commitment, or hope, then we are a nation in serious trouble.”
― Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
― Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“I understand that you are claiming it is almost impossible to forgive, but only easier to forget. The truth is that, you can only forgive that which you have forced your mind to forget. We must forget first, then
forgiveness will come by itself.”
― Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
forgiveness will come by itself.”
― Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“English: "We collaborate on forming of the world that collaborates on forming us, we are the world's face that completes itself."
膶esky: 鈥濻poluutv谩艡铆me sv臎t, kter媒 n谩s spoluutv谩艡铆,
jsme jeho tv谩艡铆, kter谩 sama sebe dotv谩艡铆.”
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膶esky: 鈥濻poluutv谩艡铆me sv臎t, kter媒 n谩s spoluutv谩艡铆,
jsme jeho tv谩艡铆, kter谩 sama sebe dotv谩艡铆.”
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“The survivor spoke to us though, or tried to. Mumbling through that matted brown beard of his, pale as death itself. I can鈥檛 say now if it was weakness from his wounds or what it was 鈥� but we struggled to understand him. In fact we got nothing intelligible from him at all then. He seemed afraid, like any dying man probably would be, but he did seem more terrified than any dying man I鈥檝e seen before 鈥� and I鈥檝e seen a few in my time. Let me tell you, Corsair or not, he grabbed whatever hand would hold his, and clenched it so tight his knuckles turned white! He kept fading out as we carried him on the stretcher board the medics brought with them. Looking back, I think he tried to warn us, poor bastard. He tried to tell us to leave him behind and go, but we wouldn鈥檛 listen. We thought we were better than the Corsairs, remember? We thought we would be all moral and upright and try to help him. 鈥楧on鈥檛 say I didn鈥檛 warn you.鈥� were the last words he said before losing consciousness. At least, those that we could make out. At the end of it all, he was right 鈥� as it turned out, we couldn鈥檛 even help ourselves.”
― Space Vacation
― Space Vacation

“For the world to change for the better, it has to be MADE better. It won鈥檛 happen by itself.”
― Pearls Before Swine
― Pearls Before Swine

“A government that is running corrupt police departments is calling itself 鈥楾he Greatest Nation On Earth鈥�.”
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