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As long as your ideas of what’s possible are limited by what’s actual, no other idea has a chance. Susan Neiman, philosopher, author, book quote from “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.153, Princeton University Press

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Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with. Richard Rorty, Philosopher

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The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent. Catharine MacKinnon, author, activist

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” The mask is not to protect you. The mask is to protect other people. So when you don’t wear the mask, [you say], ‘I don’t care about you’ ” Nancy Pelosi

via ” The mask is not to protect you. The mask is to protect other people. So when you don’t wear the mask, [you say], ‘I don’t care about you’ ” — Art of Quotation

All I ever wanted was a world without maps. Michael Ondaatje, novelist

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What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny …the time of reading, the time defined by the author’s language resonating in the self, is not the world’s time, but the soul’s. Sven Bikerts, writer

via “What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny…” — Art of Quotation

Hills against the wind press on into night over the peaks and away to the last descent…

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Into a great black silence go the seekers who left their voices behind with the temptation to speak out…

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