"If I weigh myself down, everything is lost."

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“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”

“In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.”

“Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.”

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.”

“Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.”

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— Austin Mahone

Music1996

#time

"I could not have learned to listen to coyotes without having first learned to listen to my unwillingness to sell my hours, then to listen to the signals of my body, then to listen to the disease that …"

— Derrick Jensen

Social Activism1956–2017

#time

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— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Literature1871–1922

#Human Nature

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— John Cleese

Entertainment1939

#justice