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Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.


Mitch Albom


#human-beings #potential #shortsightedness #society #truth

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.


Evelyn Beatrice Hall


#defend #disapprove #i #right #say

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.


Ambrose Bierce


#definition #honesty #vision

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.


Ambrose Bierce


#democracy

Patience – A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.


Ambrose Bierce


#virtue

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.


Ronald Reagan


#depression #recession #slogan #job

Kid, when will you learn.” “You’d be amazed the things I know.” “You might be able thrash your way out of a spider-web, but thrashing in quicksand doesn’t work. The harder you fight, the more ground you lose. Struggling merely expedites your inevitable defeat.” “Never been defeated. Never will be.” “Rowena was a spider web.” He touches my cheek with the hand holding the knife. The silver glints an inch from my eye. “Do you know what I am.” “A great big pain in my ass.” “Quicksand. And you’re dancing on it.” “Dude, what’s with the knife?” “I’m not interested in ink anymore. You’re going to sign my contract in blood.” “Thought you said it was an application,” I say pissily. “It is, Dani. To a very exclusive club. What’s Mine.” “Ain’t nobody’s. “ “Sign.” “You can’t—“ “Or Jo dies. Slowly and painfully.” “Dude, why you still talking? Unchain me and give me the fecking contract already.


Karen Marie Moning


#ryodan #defeat

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.


Benjamin Disraeli


#history #literature #politics #defeat

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.


Christopher Hitchens


#defensiveness #noam-chomsky #september- #iraq

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.


Gerard Way


#defiance #self-assuredness #self






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