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Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

Arundhati Roy

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn’t matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.
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Destroy Destruction Weapon
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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Beyond Life Way World
The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.
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Important One Liner Worth
The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government’s policies, that are so hated.
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Government Hate People Politics
He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.
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Fear Hairs Hands Himself Love Relationship Rose
Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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Difference One Liner Sick Terrorism
Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
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Clothes Color Death People
Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.
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Creation Destroy Gratitude Help Lost Power Thinking
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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Breathe Herself Journey Myself Possible Quiet World
Anything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
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Hope Human Joy Love Mad Nature Possible
What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.
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Death End Live Perspective
Things can change in a day.
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Change One Liner
If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?
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Count Dreams Happiness
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.
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Break Dance Different Fiction Morning Myself Story Technology Wake Up
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
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Chance Empathy Fight Important Peace Quality
Whatever else their faults may be, they were not radical Islamist states – Iraq was not, Syria is not, Libya was not. The most radical fundamentalist Islamist state is, of course, your America’s Saudi Arabia.
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Difference Fundamental Mistake Politics Terrorism

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