Eva-Redi
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"...our marked indifference to forms of existence other than our own, our habitual and pervasive intolerance of what is alien, in short, our characteristic inability through an act of the imagination to get outside of our own skins, to put ourselves in the place of others, to understand that the only hope of escaping from the prison of self-regarding egotism, without falling directly into the tranquilizing embrace of mobocracy, is by learning how to imagine, acknowledge, and value what is distinctly individual and other."
Giles Gunn, 1979, The Interpretation of Otherness : Literature, Religion, and the American Imagination, New York: Oxford University Press, p.176
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Eva-Redi
zizani with a twist
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Loc: Adelaide, South Australia
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"Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind." > Albert Schweitzer
"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me." > Albert Schweitzer
"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it." > Albert Schweitzer
"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot." > Eleanor Roosevelt
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." > Eleanor Roosevelt
On the topic of 'freedom': Greece - a country that left its people "unfettered discretion to live as they pleased." > an Athenian General (??)
"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong." > Winston Churchill
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." > Marcus Aurellius
"Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy." > E. H. Chaplin
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." > Kahil Gibran
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." > Albert Camus
Famous last words: "I'm bored with it all." >> Winston Churchill (a Statesman) who uttered this before slipping into a coma, and died nine days later.
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Βρήκες ακατάλληλη στιγμή να με ανταμώσεις. Eγώ δεν έχω τίποτα, πάλι σου το θυμίζω. Mια καρδια μου έμεινε ♥ παρ’την, σου την χαρίζω. Δεν έχω όνειρο, ούτε φτερά για να πετάξω ...
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Eva-Redi
zizani with a twist
Reged: Wed
Posts: 1184
Loc: Adelaide, South Australia
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" When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always. What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind .
There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."
Mahatma Gandhi
The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927
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Βρήκες ακατάλληλη στιγμή να με ανταμώσεις. Eγώ δεν έχω τίποτα, πάλι σου το θυμίζω. Mια καρδια μου έμεινε ♥ παρ’την, σου την χαρίζω. Δεν έχω όνειρο, ούτε φτερά για να πετάξω ...
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