"I did my own thinking … I have never given it out to be done by others as one gives out washing."

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“A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.”

“I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old.”

“We need tolerant men. We must all give in a little.”

“Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.”

“I'm still at work with my hand to the plough and my face to the future. The shadows of evening … lengthen about me but morning is in my heart. … the testimony I bear is this: that the castle of enchantment is not yet behind me, it is before me still and daily I catch glimpses of its battlements and towers. The best of life is always further on. The real lure is hidden from our eyes, somewhere behind the hills of time.”

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— Pentti Linkola

Science1932–2020

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"To speak of Hindu fundamentalism, is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals. To be an Indian Hindu is to be part of an elusive dream all share, a dream that fills …"

— Shashi Tharoor

Politics1956

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"Poetry — No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting asid…"

— Henry David Thoreau

Literature1817–1862

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