An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
~ Will Rogers
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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
~ Will Rogers
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There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.
~ John le Carré
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A lot of people think packing a suitcase is something you learn through practice, like singing or praying.
~ Herta Müller
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
~ Peter Drucker
The capacity to resist coercion stems partly from the individual’s identification with a group.
~ Eric Hoffer
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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
~ Saul Bellow
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The characteristics of our romantics are to understand everything, to see everything and to see it often incomparably more clearly than our most realistic minds see it; to refuse to accept anyone or anything, but at the same time not to despise anything.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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A long, intricate, but essentially unbroken line connects that rejection of the liberal university in 1968 to the orthodoxy on elite campuses today.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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The past and future have meaning because they are part of the present: a past event has existence now because you are thinking of it at this present moment, or because it influences you so that you, as a living being in the present, are that much different.
~ Rollo May
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