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Do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The solution is not, "Main Street, not Wall Street," but to change the system where Main Street cannot function without Wall Street. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#attitude

Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#enchantment #magic #magical #perspective #scale

If we ask, we should also be prepared to give. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power #money

And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And tender. I'm not used to tender. It's a fossil, that word. Conditions changed and it died out. Like the woolly mammoth. It just couldn't live in the same world as dick box. Ho dog. Or wiener cousins. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#romance #tenderness #vulgarity #young-adult #young-love

Two coconuts dropped beside him. Each went about its death throes with a slight bounce and languorous crawl then fell still. ↗

— Darrell Drake

#fantasy #death

My advice is to write in the nude. Unless you do your writing in a public restroom, and in that case, I’d recommend wearing flip flops. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#writing #change

Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives. ↗

— Deborah Day

#flexable #open-mind #open-mindedness #positive-thinking #change

I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?" Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#inspirational #self-confidence #change

When we hit our lowest point we are opened to the greatest change. ↗

— Aang

#inspirational-life #change

Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, I think everybody can agree that politicians are crooks. But I don’t think politicians are thieves, because you can’t steal what you’ve been given. Once we stop giving in, they’ll stop taking.
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— Jarod Kintz

#politicians #politics #republicans #change