One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

Margaret Mead

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

The only real nation is humanity.

Taoism is the profoundest nonconformism that has ever been evolved anywhere in the world, at any time in history; essentially it is rebellion.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

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