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Paul Farmer quote about global health, poverty, and inequalityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that." Paul Farmer
Inspirational self-perception and consciousness quote by David IckeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations." David Icke
Philosophical quote image by Georges I. Gurdjieff about inner strengthCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Listen, you have now found the conditions in which the desire of your heart can become the reality of your being. Stay here, until you acquire a force in you that nothing can destroy. Then you'll need to go back into life, and there you will measure yourself constantly with forces which will show you your place." Georges I. Gurdjieff
Consciousness and awakening quote image by Ralph Waldo TrineCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The majority of people are not awake; it is only here and there that we find one even partially awake. Practically all of us, as a result, are living lives that are unworthy almost the name of lives, compared to those we might be living, and that lie within our easy grasp. While it is true that each life is in and of Divine Being, hence always one with it, in order that this great fact bear fruit in individual lives, each one must be conscious of it; he or she must know it in thought, and then live continually in this consciousness." Ralph Waldo Trine
Henry Ford quote about investing in yourself through study, skill, and preparationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself." Henry Ford
Patriotism Is Slavery quote by Leo TolstoiCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery." Leo Tolstoi
Klaus Kinski quote about violence, life, and freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Yes, I have violence within me, but not negative violence. When a tiger tears its trainer apart, people say the tiger is violent and shoot a bullet into its head. My violence is the violence of the free who refuse to submit. Creation is violent. Life is violent. Birth is a violent process. A storm, an earthquake are violent movements of nature. My violence is the violence of life. It is not violence against nature, like the violence of the state that sends your children to the slaughterhouse, stupefies your brains, and drives out your souls!" Klaus Kinski
Georg Büchner quote about revolution, republic, rights, and self-defenseCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature." Georg Büchner
Eisenhower quote about freedom, tyranny, censorship, and the defense of libertyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America." Eisenhower
Murray Rothbard quote about paper money and monetary freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To those advocates of independent paper moneys who also champion the free market, I would address this simple question: "Why don't you advocate the unlimited freedom of each individual to manufacture dollars?" If dollars are really and properly things-in-themselves, why not let everyone manufacture them as they manufacture wheat and baby food?" Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard quote about money distribution and the effects on people with fixed incomesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money toward the end of the chain, and still worse losers are the people (e.g., those on fixed incomes such as annuities, interest, or pensions) who never receive the new money." Murray Rothbard
Inspirational family and material values quote image by John Taylor GattoCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense." John Taylor Gatto