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So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen, whose wages would stop at the first sign of disagreement with the bosses. For the rest, deafen the whole world with senseless clamour. Mechanize everything! Give nobody a chance to think. Standardize "amusement." The louder and more cacophonous, the better! Brief intervals between one din and the next can be filled with appeals, repeated 'till hypnotic power gives them the force of orders, to buy this or that product of the "Business men" who are the real power in the State. Men who betray their country as obvious routine.
The history of the past thirty years is eloquent enough, one would think. What these sodden imbeciles never realize is that a living organism must adapt itself intelligently to its environment, or go under at the first serious change of circumstance. — Aleister Crowley

Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good. — Henri Nouwen

There'd never been any closure. There hadn't even been good-byes. — Andrea Kane

There were two types of people in the world, those who hurt you and those who changed you.

Z knew without a doubt that Connelly was going to be both. — Elizabeth Varlet

You cannot change a man . . . you can only change yourself. — Michelle Muriel

Keeping my smile raised like a shield between us, I curtsied and quit the room. — Rachel Hartman

When a society has doubts about its future, it tends to produce spokesmen whose main appeal is to the emotions, who argue from intuitions, and whose claim to be truth-bearers rests solely on intense personal feeling. — Kenneth Tynan

If your religion does not work at home, don't export it. — Howard G. Hendricks

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

You can't think your way into right action, but you can act your way into right thinking. — Bill Wilson

A part of me wants to believe that I was born an artist. That it was my inexorable destiny to become a writer. I can't see any other way, I can't see a different path. It makes being an artist something special. The world can't stop me, simply because I am who I am. There's nothing that can define me more than being an artist. It's simple, it's easy to understand, and it adds an almost transcendental element to art. — Cristian Mihai

Naturally - and why should I not admit this - I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might have turned out in the long run ... I only speculate this now because in the light of subsequent events, it could well be argued that in making my decision ... I was perhaps not entirely aware of the full implications of what I was doing. Indeed, it might even be said that this small decision of mine constituted something of a key turning point; that that decision set things on an inevitable course towards what eventually happened.
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere ... What would have transpired, one may ask, had one responded slightly differently ... ? And perhaps - occurring as it did around the same time as these events? — Kazuo Ishiguro

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.' — Salman Rushdie