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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”
― Robert Bloch

“Dum Spiro, spero”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You only lose what you cling to.”
― Guatama Buddha

“Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”
― Chris Hedges

“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.”
― Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

“The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.”
― W. Somerset Maugham