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    Slavoj Žižek
    “[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.”
    ― Slavoj Žižek
    tags: 2010, 2010-eruptions-eyjafjallajokul, 2010-fifa-world-cup, catastrophe, environment, environmentalism, fatalism, fate, football, global-warming, guilt, impotence, organic-food, paper-recycling, reassurance, recycling, television
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    William Shakespeare
    “Our doubts are traitors,
    and make us lose the good we oft might win,
    by fearing to attempt.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
    tags: cowardice, doubt, resolve, self-doubt
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    Charles Dickens
    “In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: cowardice, morality, pip
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    Patrick Ness
    “To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
    ― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
    tags: choice, cowardice, responsibility
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Sir, I admit your general rule,
    That every poet is a fool,
    But you yourself may serve to show it,
    That every fool is not a poet.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    tags: insult, poetry
    181 likes

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    Khushwant Singh
    “Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.”
    ― Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan
    tags: educated, freedom, india
    101 likes

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    Khushwant Singh
    “Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.”
    ― Kushwant Singh
    tags: morality, religion
    60 likes

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    Khushwant Singh
    “So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind When just the art of being kind is all that the sad world needs.”
    ― Khushwant Singh, The End Of India
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    Khushwant Singh
    “The doer must do only when the receiver is ready to receive. Otherwise, the act is wasted.”
    ― Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan
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    P.D. Ouspensky
    “There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.”
    ― P.D. Ouspensky
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    P.D. Ouspensky
    “I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another”
    ― P.D. Ouspensky, Strange Life of Ivan Osokin
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    Jean Webster
    “I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.”
    ― Jean Webster
    tags: enjoy, goals, happiness, life, rat-race
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    “The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: achieve, achievement, attitude, barriers, conflicts, defeat, doubt, dreams, egg, exist, existence, failure, fear, fearless, forgotten, greatness, heart, hesitation, life, mind, mind-power, motivation, obstacles, quotes, race, rat-race, resist, resistence, sperm, success, successful, victory, walls
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    Edmund Burke
    “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

    [Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]”
    ― Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
    tags: arrogance, judgment, knowledge, omniscience, pomposity, preface-to-brissot-s-address, presumption, ridicule, truth
    161 likes

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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
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    Criss Jami
    “When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: abnormal, appearance, being-different, craziness, humor, individuality, insanity, majority, minority, misunderstood, original, popularity, sanity, unique
    524 likes



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