The awful thing about life is this: Everyone has their reasons. —Jean Renoir, French director, actor, and author

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Poetry was just something that existed in the world, like granite. —C.K. Williams

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Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it. —Noam Chomsky, American activist and professor of linguistics at MIT

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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another. —Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist

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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. —Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady

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Every positive value has its price in negative terms … the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

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For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? —bell hooks, black feminist social critic

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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. —Jimi Hendrix, American musician

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To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public. —Noam Chomsky, American activist and professor of linguistics at MIT

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Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. —Theodor Adorno, German sociologist, philosopher, and composer

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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. —Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady

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