#prop

All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she as extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity. ↗

— Lewis Hyde

#intellectual-property #art

A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#capitalism #commerce #goods #property #theft

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#free-will #prophecy #change

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#prophetic #wisdom #writing #age

We always have a chance to ask, a chance to know, and a chance to change. If these chances are not used properly or merely ignored,then you won't have a second chance. ↗

— Sofia Ann

#change #properly #change

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#prophets #religion #courage

I remember I laughed so hard I cried. But my response was half appropriate, because I was at a funeral. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#cry #crying #death #funeral #inappropriate

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#ago #brought #conceived #continent #created

...The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches… born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies… and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not… and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives… the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies… ↗

— Mayuri Das

#equality

If you offer some good plans to a person and you face the rejection, don't ever mind bad. When you planned something for a person, a person may, too was planning something for himself. To speak openly, even your sincere offering to God is too experience a rejection. Don't you remember the phrase "Man proposes and God disposes". ↗

— Manish Kathuria

#offers #plan #proposal #rejection #remember