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" The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens"- Alexis de Tocqueville

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
---Terry Pratchett

"Humans are weak.. They have no fangs or claws, why their only unique skill is crying and yet somehow they manage to conquer the entire world.. Do you know why?! Because among all living things on the planet.. Humans.. Are the most cruel!"

"When you want to give up, remember why you started."

Hemp - A plant with fiberous properties frequently woven into neckwear used on people after public speaking and preventing them from catching cold. - Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary

"Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”

This is actually an excerpt from the novel Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley rather than just a quote, but it will always be one of my personal fav's. The character is talking about cave-paintings of a hand print (in Spain I believe):

"And out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of something irresistible above my head, seen in the ebb and flow of the swinging light: the imprint of a human hand.

God only knew how long ago it had been put there. This is my mark, it said. My mark that I was here. All I can tell you of my self and my time is in this signature; this hand print; mine. Now, the animals are calling to us out beyond this place – the frozen entrance to this cave. In days or hours we will have died. I leave you this: my hand as signature beside these images of what I knew. Look how my fingers spread to tell my name.

And I knew I was sitting at the heart of the human race – which is its will to say I am.”

“...people live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true... that is how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts... their reality may all be an illusion.”

"Feminism is an ideology, and like any other ideology it can easily transmute a necessary perception into an indulgent madness."

-Clive James.

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."

“All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”

― Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men

“To know the way,
we go the way,
we do the way.
The way we do,
the things we do,
it's all there in front of you.
But if you try too hard to see it,
you'll only become confused.
I am me and you are you.
As you can see;
but when you do
the things that you can do,
you will find the way.
The way will follow you.”

― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

"Always down. Always silent. Nothing leaves the fortress of your mouth. Do they die on the teeth? Do they suffocate in the throat? Or maybe no words ever existed, it's just deluded air rising and falling."

In 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important. --Eleventh Doctor

"This republic will stand until the government realizes that it can bribe the people with the people's money." -Alexis de Tocqueville