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“The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.”

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Walter Mosley is an American novelist, best known for his detective novel series featuring Easy Rawlins. His works blend literary value with social commentary, earning him a wide readership. more

“One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the world’s people, those of the West included, are taught to believe rather than to think. It’s much easier to believe than to think. People seldom think seriously about that which we are taught to believe, because we are all creatures of imitation and habit.”

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“Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.”

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Author:Haki R. Madhubuti

“It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.”

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Author:Gerard Way

“Tears are words the heart can't express”

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

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Author:Gerard Way

“Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter —maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”

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Author:John Green

“We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.”

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Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.”

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Author:Lauren Oliver

“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.”

Source: Anna Karenina (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Anna Karenina (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)

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