Today it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Today it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Too many Republicans treat English as a second language, with Beltway lingo being their native tongue.
~ Thomas Sowell
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk
– we can talk about it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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An element of goodness may be found even in our worst enemy. Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. A persistent civil war rages within all or our lives.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Anthropologically, money should be defined as a semantic system, broadly similar to language; writing, or weights and measures. These systems differ mainly in the purposes served and the signs employed. Language and writing serve the purpose of the communication of ideas, weights and measures that of quantitative physical relationship. As to signs, language uses oral sounds; writing employs ideograms or visual characters; weights and measures, on the other hand, use physical objects as the basis of symbols.
― Karl Polanyi
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.
~ T.S. Eliot
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So many people are little countries, bounded all around by themselves and they never quite get out of themselves. And these are the persons who are victimized with arrested development.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Part of the pleasure of Instagram is the way it edits out the ugly emotions that make up so much of the rest of social media.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
~ Iris Murdoch
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