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The behaviour you walk past is the behaviour you accept.

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Today's compare and contrast: "Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a “man of reasonableness.” He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved to be irresistible. He always made certain that the other fellow got his share of profit. Nobody lost."

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"Small acts of acquiescence, framed as necessary defensive measures, feel like the only reasonable course. But this is the fatal logic of appeasement: the belief that quietly yielding in small, seemingly temporary ways will mitigate long-term harm. It usually doesn’t." -- Steven Levitsky

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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least. Booker T. Washington

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. Booker T. Washington

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We have the internet and 24-hour news, and now we have millions of wilfully ignorant voters. This is no coincidence - see the Theory of the Masses en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknes...

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Sic semper tyrannis is a Latin phrase meaning "thus always to tyrants". In contemporary parlance, it means tyrannical leaders will inevitably be overthrown. The phrase also suggests that bad but justified outcomes should, or eventually will, befall tyrants. It is the motto of the Virginia.

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I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us. Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative. Maybe that’s one of the reasons we enjoy it.

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The only time you look in your neighbour's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbour's bowl to see if you have as much as them -- Louie CK

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“To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?” -- Kevin Alfred Strom

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"I don't think people realize how the establishment became established. It simply stole the land and property off the poor, surrounded themselves with weak-minded sycophants for protection, gave themselves titles and have been wielding power ever since" -- Tony Benn

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"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." -- Frank Wilhoit

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Capitalism is not, as its defenders insist, a system designed to distribute wealth, but one designed to capture and concentrate it. The story capitalism tells about itself – that you become rich through hard work and enterprise – is the greatest propaganda coup in human history. – George Monboit

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Dignity at all times -- Eric Morecambe, The Morecambe & Wise Show, 1977 Christmas Special

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The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them – Erasmus, The Praise of Folly (1509)

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You’re increasing the volume in your voice, but no the logic in your argument – Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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Rule of thumb - any relationship is broken when one side first becomes disgusted by the other.

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The height of moral rectitude is to stand up to bullies. The greatest moral opprobrium is reserved for show-offs.

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POLITE NOTICE Customers are reminded that these newspapers contain the opinions of a small group of billionaires to influence public opinion and are not 100% factual or reflect reality. Please cross-reference everything you read. THANK YOU

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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. -Jimmy Carter

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"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Aha!—so far from being a madman, he was saner, you see, than the average of our race; for he had a warm spot in him for cats. When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. -- Mark Twain

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In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out. -- Charlie Munger

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People say the world is polarizing into the haves and the have nots, or the Muslims and the Christians, or the political left or the political right, the criminals and the law-abiding, ... I reckon the world is polarizing into those who show consideration for other people, and those who do not.

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"In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote." - David Foster Wallace

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"There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in." -Desmond Tutu

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"You do not raise yourself up by putting other people down. You do not make yourself big by making somebody else small." -- Aesop

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"He thought [the rich] were a special glamorous race and when he found out they weren't it wrecked him as much as any other thing wrecked him" -- Hemingway writing about Fitzgerald

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“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.” – T.S. Eliot

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... it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity. ... The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other. – Bonhoeffer

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“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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Here is a simple rule for humanity: we should always find a way to not kill civilians. If there is a way to not kill civilians and you choose to kill civilians, you are in the wrong.

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"The modern conservative is … engaged … in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." Harpers, March 1964.1

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“When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create.” — Why the Lucky Stiff

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That’s all a queue is, after all: the cost of someone else’s efficiency, being shouldered by you.

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"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead." -- Gelet Burgess

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Every political system we have tried has proven incapable of protecting human rights and dignity. Every political system we have tried has devolved into oligarchy. – Heather Marsh

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Corporate ownership of our communication tools will cause us to yet again relinquish control to a landlord. Corporate sponsored voice amplification will lead to corporate controlled oligarchy. -- Heather Marsh

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If you can’t paraphrase somebody else’s position in a way that they would agree with, you don’t understand it, and if you don’t understand it, you can’t debate it.

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A beggar’s mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king’s mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity. – R Scott Bakker, The Judging Eye

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