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“Traditional colonial power seeks unilateral power and domination over colonized people. It declares control of the social, economic, and political spheres by reordering and reinventing social order i…

"As a twig is bent the tree inclines." (Virgil)

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." (Franklin P. Jones)

"There are some who reduce everything to a skirmish; bandits of social intercourse, they want to triumph in everything they do. They don't know how to go about things peacefully." (Baltasar Gracián)

"There is much of mankind that a man can only learn from himself." (Walter Bagehot)

"'The individual' is an idea like other ideas." (Harold Rosenberg)

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." (Oscar Wilde)

"I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like butter and sugar, not even at Cambridge." (Virginia Woolf)

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." (William Blake)

"The must universal quality is diversity." (Michel de Montaigne, 'On the resemblance of children to their fathers', Essays)

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." (Carl Jung)

"Nothing is repeated, and everything is unparalleled." (Goncourt Brothers)

"To expect bad men never to do bad things is insensate; it is hoping for the impossible. To tolerate their offences against others, and expect none against yourself, is both irrational and arbitrary."…

" in moments of anger, let the thought always be present that loss of temper is no sign of manliness, but that there is more virility, as well as more natural humanity, in one he shows himself gentle …

“The problem is that the desire to change yourself is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself.” — Pema Chödrön

Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Inhuman: Reflections on Time

"In what we call thinking the mind isn’t ‘directed’ but suspended. You don’t give it rules. You teach it to receive. You don’t clear the ground to build unobstructed: you make a little clearing where …

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"He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived." Chinese Proverb

You have to act as if it were possible you could radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. Angela Davis

"Integrity has no need of rules." (Albert Camus)

"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think." (…

"Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has." (Alphonse Karr)

"It's common for nobody to be happy with their lot, however good, or to be unhappy with their intellect, however bad." (Baltasar Gracián, 'The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence')

"Sophisticated people can hardly understand how vague experience is at bottom, and how truly that vagueness supports whatever clearness is afterwards attained." (George Santayana)

"If we lived alone in a featureless desert we should learn to place the individual grains of sand in a moral or aesthetic hierarchy." (Michael Frayn)

"We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained." (Go…

"A life, admirable at first sight, may have cost so much in imposed liabilities, chores, and self-abasement, that, brilliant though it appears, it cannot be considered as other than a failure. Another…

"A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

"Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable." (Nietzsche)

"The best way out is always through." (Robert Frost)

"Tell yourself, when you feel exasperated and out of all patience, that this mortal life endures but a moment; it will not be long before we shall one and all have been laid to rest." (Marcus Aurelius…

"Do not be aggrieved, then, if things are not always to your liking. As long as they are in accord with nature, be glad of them, and do not make difficulties; if they are not, then find out what your …

Murakami

Murakami When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I …

"Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?" (Isaac Asimov)

"Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock." (Alvin Toffler)

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the thing, however, is to change it." (Karl Marx)

"Undertake what's easy as it it were hard, and what's hard as it it were easy. In the first case, so that confidence doesn't make you careless; in the second, so that lack of confidence doesn't make y…

"Although the world is full of fools, nobody thinks, or even suspects, that they are one." (Baltasar Gracián, 'The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence')