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One must wonder if Charlie was consulted about being a sacrificial lamb. #philosophy
"So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do." - W.B. Yeats A bespectacled Mr Years in profile depicted.
September 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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With freedom comes uncertainty, but better the uncertainty of freedom than the certainty of slavery. #philosophy
"Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt." - Patrick Henry
September 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The Apocalypse is now. #bethepeople
Written on a chalk board: "Your comfort zone" - pointing to a small square "Where the magic happens!" - pointing to a big circle
September 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Take the values you subscribe to here and apply them to the world. And when it is asked if it is possible the answer is, "With God, all things are possible."
Photo of the inside of a cathedral.
September 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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"Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life. Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?" - Mr Miyagi discussing the facts of life with the Karate Kid
August 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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"The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, a dog and a dog-eater." - Bhagavad-Gita 5.18 Lord Krishna playing a golden flute depicted
August 31, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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"The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others." - Simone de Beauvoir
August 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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"Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth." - Toni Morrison Save the Children - Change the Future
August 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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"At a time like this when we live in fear of the future on account of the great advances of science and technology, it is essential for all those who have faith in wisdom and a love of God, whatever may be their religious denominations, to get together, form a sacramental brotherhood and work for fellowship in which alone lies the redemption of Man." - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
August 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." - Galatians 5:14 Two hands in the shape of a heart with the sun shining through
August 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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"Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will generate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land." - Denis Diderot
August 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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"Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near." - Isaiah 55:6
August 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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"Imagine the monarch Agha Mohammed Khan, who orders the entire population of the city of Kerman murdered or blinded - no exceptions. His praetorians set energetically to work. They line up the inhabitants, slice of the heads of the adults, gouge out the eyes of the children... Later, processions of blinded children leave the city. Some, wandering around in the countryside, lose their way in the desert and die of thirst. Other groups reach inhabited settlements... singing songs about the extermination of the citizens of Kerman..." Ryszard Kapuściński: Shah of Shahs
August 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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"To practice justice is to practice liberty." - Simon Bolivar
August 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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You owe yourself the love that you so freely give to other people.
August 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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"That which was at first bound, cast out and rent by many and various beaters will be respected and honoured, and its precepts will be listened to with reverence and love." - Leonardo DaVinci
August 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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"We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
August 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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We must unite. There is no other way. #bethepeople
"I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - John 14:6 A simple drawing of the face of Jesus with a crown of thorns and a tear in his eye depicted.
August 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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There is order and then there is the pecking order. #philosophy
"World peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power." - Sri Chinoy Sri Chinoy with his hands together and his head bowed depicted.
August 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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If you're pastor/ethical counselor is not clear about what is worth fighting for, then they are either being weak or being deceptive. #philosophy
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." - Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln looking right at you depicted.
August 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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When in doubt, remember, you are more powerful than any emperor that has ever lived. #philosophy
Never, never stood anywhere, in greater luxury, than surrounds me now. This is a chamber of marvels! There isn’t a King or Queen or Emperor I have ever known - or eaten - who would step into this room and agree to ever leave it again. I knew the future would bring wonders. But I didn’t know it would make them ordinary. Dracula (2020) Claes Bang as Dracula lost in thought depicted.
August 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Out of the frying pan and into the fire. #philosophy
Nuclear armed communists - girl making ugly face Nuclear armed oligarchs - Oppenheimer
August 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Just because I don't bend the knee doesn't make me your enemy. #philosophy
No one deserves an equal say more than you. The White House at dusk depicted.
August 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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The lesser of two evils is knuckling under? You don't say. #philosophy
"Political parties are likely to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be able to subvert the power of the people and usurp for themselves the reigns of government." - George Washington, Farewell Address September 17, 1976
August 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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If the idea of democracy scares you, it is because you frighten easily. #philosophy
"Respect... Respect everyone!" - Buzz Lightyear showing an apprehensive Woody the way
August 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM