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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“the workingman, being selfish, wants all he can get in the division. The capitalist, being selfish, wants all he can get in the division. When there is only so much of the same thing, and when two men want all they can get of the same thing, there is a conflict of interest between labor and capital. And it is an irreconcilable conflict. As long as workingmen and capitalists exist, they will continue to quarrel over the division.”
― Jack London, The Iron Heel

“All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. You go to Sunday-school to learn what”
― Jack London, The Iron Heel

“All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer.”
― Jack London, The Iron Heel

“It is what we of the working class preach. We know, and well we know by bitter experience, that no appeal for the right, for justice, for humanity, can ever touch you.”
― Jack London, The Iron Heel

“Abraham Lincoln, said, just before his assassination: "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
― Jack London, The Iron Heel

“Times have changed since Christ's day. A rich man to-day who gives all he has to the poor is crazy. There is no discussion. Society has spoken.”
― Jack London, The Iron Heel

“Without them, anarchy would reign and humanity would drop backward into the primitive night out of which it had so painfully emerged.”
― Jack London, The Iron Heel

“Death does not spare anyone; it treats the king and his subjects with total equality.”
― Arjia Rinpoche, Surviving the Dragon: A Tibetan Lama's Account of 40 Years under Chinese Rule

“Politics is like a child’s game: Sometimes people are enemies, and then they become friends.”
― Arjia Rinpoche, Surviving the Dragon: A Tibetan Lama's Account of 40 Years under Chinese Rule

“you were as courageous as a roaring lion beset by cowardly foxes!”
― Arjia Rinpoche, Surviving the Dragon: A Tibetan Lama's Account of 40 Years under Chinese Rule

“All my friends have become my enemies. All the good things I have done have been cited as evidence of my crime.”
― Arjia Rinpoche, Surviving the Dragon: A Tibetan Lama's Account of 40 Years under Chinese Rule

“The social status of a person is as light as a piece of paper, with little weight and easily blown away; however, compassion is a piece of gold, still shining even if it has been buried for a hundred years.”
― Arjia Rinpoche, Surviving the Dragon: A Tibetan Lama's Account of 40 Years under Chinese Rule

“we are all each other’s teacher.”
― Arjia Rinpoche, Surviving the Dragon: A Tibetan Lama's Account of 40 Years under Chinese Rule

“It is said with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who proceeded him.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Every code must be reversed; every barrier thrown down; party must unite with party, country with country, and continent with continent.”
― Robert Hugh Benson, Lord of the World

“We are unhappy, he explained, because we are slaves to our desires. Extinguish desire and suffering goes with it. If people could be taught that the physical or phenomenal world is illusion, then they would cease their attachment to it, thereby finding release from their self-destructive mental bondage.”
― Thomas Hoover, The Zen Experience

“the things of this world are all a mental creation, since external phenomena are transient and only exist for us because of our perception. Consequently they are actually "created" by our mind (or, if you will, a more universal entity called Mind). Consequently they do not exist outside our mind and hence are a void. Yet the mind itself, which is the only thing real, is also a void since its thoughts cannot be located by the five senses.”
― Thomas Hoover, The Zen Experience

“When men are starving and sick of fear, they look for a savior.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“for if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this but that you first make thieves and then punish them?”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Books! And cleverness! There are more important things-friendship and bravery and-oh Harry-be careful!”
― J.K. Rowling

“Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“everything around you is a commercial for a product you do not need.”
― Vincent Hobbes, The Hour of the Time

“Humanity had abused the earth, destroying their bodies and the environment, succumbing to selfishness and materialism.”
― T.W. Piperbrook, Contamination Boxed Set

“even if there were a grain of truth in every story, it would be worth telling, because having a little hope was better than having none.”
― T.W. Piperbrook, Contamination Boxed Set

“The more technology we develop, the more people learn to withdraw from the real world.”
― T.W. Piperbrook, Contamination Boxed Set

“Creating a life worth living may be the most difficult work that you’ll ever do. There will be some days that you won’t feel up to the task but if you keep moving forward this will become easier. In the end, though, success can be yours and we’ll have been cheerleading you all the way.”
― Debbie Corso, Stop Sabotaging: A 31-Day DBT Challenge to Change Your Life

“Remember, to embody Active Patience, we must be in it for the long term.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“The more you exercise the more energy you have, the more energy you have the more clearly you think. Active Patience is calm. Exercise reduces panic and anxiety behaviour. This is the kind of behaviour that makes us feel we are in a hurry and trying to do a million different things at once.We become paralysed, and beat ourselves up for it.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing