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I don't know how many years it was before I arrived at a formulated philosophy that the happiest thing to do, always, when visiting an individual or a country, is to admit, by word or manner, how much I'm finding there that my life had lacked hitherto ↗

— Clara E. Laughlin

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If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind. ↗

— Al Green

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One noći smo bili, rekao sam mu, ispred neke kuće na Florin bulevaru... Lynn je želela da hoda bosa, skinula je cipele i stavila ih u tašnu. Šetali smo tako ispred te kuće... Onda je ulicom prošla neka dečurlija sa maskama na licu. Vraćali su se sa nekog karnevala. Jedan od njih je prišao Lynn i upitao je: - Zbog čega vi hodate bosi? Zaustavili su se i napravili krug oko nas. Svi zajedno su imali godina koliko i mi. - Tako se brže hoda, odgovorila im je. - Stvarno?, rekli su svi u glas. - Da, rekla je Lynn, skineš cipele samo onda kad odlučiš kuda želiš da ideš. Kuda vi želite da idete? - U Diznilend, rekli su - Skinite onda cipele, rekla je Lynn. Bićete tamo za pet minuta. Klinci su stvarno poskidali cipele i pojurili ka Diznilendu. - Pogledaj ih, rekla mi je, žure da stignu svoj san. ↗

— Milan Oklopdžić

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The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behavior it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern. ↗

— Herman E. Daly

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putriku menaiki lidah petir. membangunkan setiap raksasa malas. mengejarnya hingga sudutsudut kebun hidup. menggambar pertentangan dan kehancuran. ↗

— Dorothea Rosa Herliany

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Life is a condition filled with ups and downs. There will be always 'if', in a life. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

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But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it. ↗

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

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What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false. ↗

— George Eliot

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Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of its own possibility--space itself--to be forgotten: space thus becomes the blind spot in a scientific and political technology. This is the way in which the Concept-city functions: a place of transformations and appropriations, the object of various kinds of interference but also a subject that is constantly enriched by new attributes, it is simultaneously the machinery and the hero of modernity. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

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The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

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