We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
URSULA K. LE GUINThere is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.
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