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Thoughts to Ponder for March 21, 2014
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, British writer
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We literally believe we are in the right to ignore a message of truth if the messenger is somehow distasteful to us. I would argue this to be a symptom of total madness.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell
"Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave." -- Leo Tolstoy, What shall We Do Then? (1886)
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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."
-- Quentin Crisp, British writer