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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. ↗

— Ben Elton

#equal #feeling #opposite #resentment #sympathy

My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career. ↗

— James Ellroy

#biggest thrill #career #character #continue #determined

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#does #empire #monarchy #overt #see

Wind is renewable. Turbines are not. ↗

— Ozzie Zehner

#environment #politics #science #wisdom #science

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe. ↗

— David Bohm

#man #microcosm #sense #some #therefore

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence. ↗

— David Bohm

#avoid #call #i #keeping #results

Being worshipped is a horrible experience. ↗

— John Fahey

#experience #horrible #worshipped

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#comes #fact #far #good #judgment

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. ↗

— David Bohm

#compulsive #conform #constitute #culture #distortion

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#everyone #means #opportunity #slave