When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUINA child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died.
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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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A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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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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A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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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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The presence of the trees was very strong…The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.
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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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