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Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though…

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There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind…
If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life…
I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the…
A language Older Than Words
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings,…
By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to…
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from…
I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not…
Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come…
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting…
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

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There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make… — Amelie Mauresmo
I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Yes, I do have remorse, but I'm not even sure myself whether it is as profound as it should be. I've always… — Jeffrey Dahmer
Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should… — Derrick Jensen
I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that… — Thomas Jefferson
So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life,… — Virginia Woolf
It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in… — Bebe Neuwirth
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come… — George V
There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon… — Arthur Ashe
'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really… — Jonah Hill
I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative. — Chloe Sevigny
When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more… — David Hume

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