November 2012
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“To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it...”
– Chinua Achebe
October 2012
1 post
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“It’s a bad religion
This unrequited love
To me it’s nothing but a...”
– Bad Religion, Frank Ocean
September 2012
1 post
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“If you aspire to the highest place,
it is no disgrace to stop...”
– Cicero, 106-43 BC Roman Orator, Statesman and Essayist
August 2012
6 posts
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“Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind.”
– Michelle NdegeOcello
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“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”
– Noel Coward
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“This was not simply cold: this was science fiction. This was a story set on the...”
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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“An odd thing, life. You never know where you are with it, do you?”
– P.G. Wodehouse
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“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient...”
– Paulo Coelho
July 2012
17 posts
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“Colorblind is just another way of saying we don’t care.”
– Jason Chu
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“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
– Simone de Beauvoir
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“The Alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing...”
– The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
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“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the...”
– Bertrand Russel
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“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it,...”
– William Feather
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“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is...”
– Audre Lorde
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“Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.”
– Sallust
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“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to...”
– Carl Sagan
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“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they are to make our...”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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“I’ve never had more respect for life and living than I have right now. Maybe it...”
– Frank Ocean
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“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t...”
– Malcolm X
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“‘Have you ever noticed’, I said, ‘how everyone says they want...”
– Charles de Lint, The Blue Girl
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“I have got my leave. Bid me farewell, my brothers!
I bow to you all and take my...”
– Rabindranath Tagore
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“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
June 2012
23 posts
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“No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.”
– Jewish Proverb
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“He who learns teaches, he who teaches learns.”
– Ethopian Proverb
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“There are moments when everything turns out right. Do not let them alarm you;...”
– Jules Renard
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“A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she...”
– Maya Angelou
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“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
– Albert Camus
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“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the...”
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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“Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.”
– Luc de Clapiers
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“What is it that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print...”
– Walt Whitman
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“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
– an old saying
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“Tell him that we have fucking programmed reality. Tell him that language is a...”
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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“The axe forgets; the tree remembers.”
– Shona Tribe Proverb
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“I’ve had a lot of people ask me why “everything becomes about race” without...”
– themindislimitless
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“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
– Isaac Newton
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“You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That...”
– Wangari Maathai
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“I pointed out to you the stars and all you saw was the tip of my finger.”
– Sukuma Proverb (Tanzania)
Thank you to This Is Not Africa for pointing out a previous mistake.
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“You’re thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland
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“What does it mean if i’m afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?”...”
– C. Joybell C.
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“Why resist temptation? There will always be more.”
– Don Herold
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“I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the...”
– Saul Bellow
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“You know how people say to not be angry? I disagree. Anger gets things done....”
– On My Anger, themindislimitless
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“You keep putting one foot in front of the other and one day you look back and...”
– Tom Hiddleston
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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the...”
– Stephen R. Covey
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“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to...”
– James Baldwin
May 2012
42 posts
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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to...”
– Galileo Galilei 