"The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining."

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“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”

“It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.”

“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”

“Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.”

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"Terror makes the new future possible. All men one man, Men live in history as never before. He is saying we make an change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do …"

— Don DeLillo

Literature1936

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"I never will forget one night very late. It was around midnight... the telephone started ringing and I picked it up. On the other end was an ugly voice. That voice said to me, in substance, "Nigger, w…"

— Martin Luther King

Social Activism1929–1968

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"I found her charming, went home and thought no more about her. Or, I thought I would think no more about her. But in the following days and nights her image remained obsessively before my eyes. My app…"

— Robert Sheckley

Literature1928–2005

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"The Rogue Cyborg is doing serious Rogue Cyborg stuff. He’s crouched before a data terminal as though it were an ancient altar, and from the look on his face what he’s praying for is desperate and bloo…"

— Kage Baker

Literature1952–2010

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