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Charles Bukowski quote image about learning from your demonsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice." Charles Bukowski
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David Graeber quote about traditional and modern hedonismCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like." David Graeber
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Chris Hedges quote about societal illusions, despair, and the imperative of resistanceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it's hard; it's painful. I struggle with despair all the time. But I'm not going to let it win. It is incumbent upon all of us that at the same time we recognize how dark the future is, we also recognize the absolute imperative of resistance in every form possible." Chris Hedges
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Georges I. Gurdjieff quote about the relationship between knowledge and understandingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being...It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it." Georges I. Gurdjieff
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Mahatma Gandhi quote about truth, love, and the fall of tyrannyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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." Mahatma Gandhi
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Noam Chomsky quote about freedom of speech for all viewsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech." Noam Chomsky
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Ayn Rand quote about the Founding Fathers as thinkers and men of actionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action." Ayn Rand
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