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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. Charles Lamb

My Motto More Wishing Contented Motto Little

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. Liu Xiaobo

Life Wisdom Death Freedom Democracy Humanity Progress Hatred Poison Nation Tolerance Society Destroy Corrosive Life And Death Spirit Mentality Struggles Brutal Block Person Conscience Enmity

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. bell hooks

Life Death Food Terrorism Poverty Every Addiction State Our Extreme No Life Drink Life-Threatening Abuse Toxic Domestic Child Child Abuse Closer Whether Warfare Us Bodies Act Found Mundane Brings Violence

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. Aleister Crowley

Nature Natural People Drunk Manners Fighting Morality Facts Instincts Tales Suppress Make Modern Them Ignorant Keep

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. Roger Ebert

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. Pauline Kael

Motivational You Ending Will Way Something Wedge Foot Open Pry Where Want Door Anything Your Keep Million Chance Need

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. William Hazlitt

Hypocrite Hypocrisy Repentance Only Itself Forgiven Vice Cannot

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. John Churton Collins

Adversity Prosperity Our Know Friends Us

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. Pamela Hansford Johnson

Sunset Water Sky Fire Broke Like Caught Egg Full

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. William Hazlitt

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley

Life Change Mistake Experience Joy Every Consists Constant Attainable Simply Ideal New Exercise Up Die Stop Energies Eternal Mankind Means Growth Enjoyment Set

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. Lionel Trilling

Others Oneself Advantage Make Misunderstanding Understood Where Helpless Serve

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? bell hooks

The more we do, the more we can do. William Hazlitt

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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. Liu Xiaobo

Truth Nature Rights Mother Free Free Speech Human Nature Human Rights Free Expression Suppress Insult Stifle Human Root Base Expression Speech

If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends. Nina Garcia

I am grateful to have my life back and for the friends and family who never gave up on me, for a God who was there when I was ready to find him. I am grateful for so much, that every day, one day at a time, is Thanksgiving. Andrew Zimmern

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I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. Aleister Crowley

Good Memory Insulted Understand Did Refused Being Asked Manner

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. Aleister Crowley

Complete Virtues Worthless Collection Willpower Absence Talents Most Wholly

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits. Henry Giroux

Life War People Power Considered Range Immigrants Minorities Quest Unemployed Endless Predatory War Zone Low Poor Capital Low-Income Viewed Whites Exponentially Who Homeless Disposable Grown Income Now Profits Zone Number Liability

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Aleister Crowley

Education Worth Discipline Mind First Reading Must Something Chatter Feed Read Refrain Refuse Canned While Newspaper Therefore Resolutely

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