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“Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.”

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Anya Seton was a renowned Canadian author known for her historical novels. Her works often feature strong female protagonists, delving into the lives, loves, and growth of women. Born on January 23, 1904, she passed away on November 8, 1990. more

“Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.”

People World Wells Found Waiting Cases Land Students Succeed Towns Workers Folks Ill Vices Mates Restless Retired Vice Versa Servicemen

Author:Tom Robbins

“To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its capacity to surprise, it relinquishes its music; to the extent that it loses its ability to tolerate ridiculous and even dangerous exceptions, it loses its grace.”

World Loses Ability Grace Dangerous This World Diversity Capacity Surprise Ridiculous Surrender Exception Tolerate Richness

Author:Tom Robbins

“I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.”

Years Firsts Moments Law Students Mess Law Students

Book:One L

Source: One L

“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”

Inspirational Doe Interest Change Community Acting Injustice Resistance Changing The World Being The Best Sincerely Likelihood

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.”

Ifs Wells Community Struggle Resistance Elsewhere Concrete Resonance

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.”

Ifs Giving Asks Work Bread Anarchism

Author:Emma Goldman

“For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.”

Men Fields Eternal Mass Breaths Excuse Egypt Infection Poisonous Sprouts Swarms

Book:The Wisdom of Kierkegaard

Source: The Wisdom of Kierkegaard

“No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.”

Men Mind Humans Weakness Faults Human Mind Pardon Double Standard Negligence Easiness

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.”

People Ideas Culture Views Listening Speech Training Concerned Flow Opposites Tedious Interruptions

Author:S. I. Hayakawa

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