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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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Back Large Once Pattern See Sen Whole
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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Find never One Put Wall Way Wost
And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
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Came Done Forgot Have Once Remember Saw Sunset Western Wind
The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Balance Candle Cast Light Shadow World
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
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Burden Choice Easy Freedom Gift Great Strange Hard heavy Load Made Spirit Undertake
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.
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Build Own Prison Wall
This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars.
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Art Darkness End Must Must Heard Safety Silence Star
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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Care Mean Person Say Winter Word
If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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God No Proven Religion
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
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Change Crush Idea Ignore Refuse Suppressing Think
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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Book Essential Feel Find Guide Imaginary Ourselves Out People Real Think Understanding
Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
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Deeper Isaknd Making Moon Older Power Root Tree Woman
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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Capitalism Inescapable King Live Power Right Seem
When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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Always Change Consciousness Genuine Life Message Myth Rise
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Answer Question Right Wrong
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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Best Country Guide Instruction Life Literature Manual Oprtae Visit

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