The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
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Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as read more
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Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.".
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
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We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.
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When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon our souls.
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Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
