That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them. -Fannie Lou Hamer

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Nobody's free until everybody's free. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...

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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. ― Virginia Woolf

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What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.

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I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

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The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!

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We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

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Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems. - Jonathan Gottschall

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