"If unjustified, ambition kills value, eats its own life, kills someone else's desire to fly, cuts their wings, sucks their air."

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“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”

“I imagined I was God for a millisecond and became speechless for a long time.”

“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”

“I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery.”

“Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.”

“Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.”

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— Frederick Douglass

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#knowledge

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— Sita Ram Goel

Literature1921–2003

#justice

"One would like to say de mortuis nil nisi bonum, but a friend may be allowed to offer a little criticism. He was not always as receptive to new ideas as he should have been, and as an historian was no…"

— R. Allen Brown

History1924–1989

#life

"You can imagine my dismay when I got to Cambridge and found that I had done everything wrong. I shouldn't have named the chimps; I should have given them numbers. I couldn't talk about their personali…"

— Jane Goodall

activism1934–2025

#mind