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Toinette: Look you, Sir; a beard is something in itself; a beard is half the doctor.

classic line from The Imaginary Invalid, script by Moliere (1673)
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haiku by Jonathan Robin (10 January 1993)
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Blaspheming is praying backwards.

aphorism by Ramon Eder, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Do not seek to find hope among your leaders. They are the repositories of poison. Their interest in you extends only so far as their ability to control you. For you, they seek duty and obedience, and they will ply you with the language of stirring faith. They seek followers, and woe to those who question, or voice challenge. Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.

quote by Steven Erikson
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I do not sell hope. I give it away.

Codrin Stefan Tapu in Teachings on Being
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Keeping still

Keeping his back still
So that he no longer feels his body.
He goes into his courtyard
And does not see his people.
No blame.
True quiet means keeping still when the time has come to keep still, and going forward when the time has come to go forward.
In this way rest and movement are in agreement with the demands of the time, and thus there is light in life.

poem from I Ching
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