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It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement… — Paulo Freire
The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number… — Bill Bryson
kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness… — Kurt Vonnegut
Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back… — Sarah Dessen
I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to… — Salvador Dali
...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence,… — Marquis de Sade
Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses. — Leo Tolstoy
You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each… — C.S. Lewis
Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be… — Marguerite Duras
I looked over at him. "Is that a proposal?" There was total silence for a couple beats. "I'm not sure. It just popped out." "Let… — Janet Evanovich
The inside of the door is glossy white. A total re-paint. I touch it with my fingers, but it stays the same. It's so bright… — Jenny Downham
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He… — Erich Fromm
Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses of success and… — Hilary McKay
Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives.… — James E. Faust
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only… — Richard Matheson
Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been fulfilled. I saw… — Richard Matheson
Total commitment," I said. "You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding… — Sarah Dessen
He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and… — Lois Lowry
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing… — Federico Fellini
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to… — Audrey Niffenegger
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a… — Brigham Young
I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his… — Jim Cymbala
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to… — William S. Burroughs
You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now. — Wayne Dyer
Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for… — Jeanette Winterson

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