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Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

Criss Jami

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A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
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I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.
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The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.
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An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite he becomes more independent.
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I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
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I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball. Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.
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The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.
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It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.
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Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.
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Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
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I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?
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Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.
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Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
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Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.
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One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.
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The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
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When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.
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