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• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Believe, Struggle, Expression

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• The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

  Johan Huizinga

  Ethical Standards, Understanding, Judgment

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• Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

  Julian Assange

  Mean Girls, Real, United States

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on Iraq War Logs, "Tabloid Journalism" and Why WikiLeaks Is "Under Siege"". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 26, 2010.

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• You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

  Hector Elizondo

  Scripts, Dots, Jokes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Soul, Style

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, Men, Blood

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.150, tredition

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• I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

  Helen Keller

  Loss, Men, Voice

  Helen Adams Keller (1933). “Helen Keller in Scotland: A Personal Record Written by Herself”

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• Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

  Andrew Miller

  Loss, Talking, Listening

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• Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

  Shelley Winters

  Movie, Loss, Player

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• So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.

  Philippe Perrin

  Skills, People, Luck

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• We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Winning, Grace, Together

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• By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Art, Memories, Flower

  "Mes Apprentissages". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1936.

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• I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.

  Jane Mayer

  New York, Dark, Swag

  "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

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• You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point where we realize that no dialogue is possible, that no dialogue is necessary. When I say understanding or seeing, they mean something different to me. Understanding is a state of being where the question isn't there any more. There is nothing there that says, "Now I understand!" That's the basic difficulty between us. By understanding what I am saying, you are not going to get anywhere.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Understanding, Different, Helpful

  "The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti".

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• To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Technique, Language, Masters

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Degrees, Development, May

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

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• The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.

  David Deida

  Letting Go, Sex, Giving Up

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• Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Eugenics, Discovery, Socialism

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Eugenics, Everyday, Democracy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

  Peter L. Berger

  Simple, Issues, Culture

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• We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

  Martin Buber

  Learning, Whole

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• Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Learning, Eye, Matter

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Learning, Math, Doe

  John Edensor Littlewood (1953). “A mathematicians's miscellany”

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• Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to educate for eternity, Eugene England writes: Teaching or learning - with the Spirit of God simply means (though it is not simple) that we are doing so with an eye single to eternal, not worldly, values, with an eye single to lasting development of the mind and spirit and to useful service to others, especially to aid in their lasting development of mind and spirit.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Teaching, Writing, Learning

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• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  Carl Levin

  Mean Girls, Mistake, Iraq

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