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• Among the few I have indicated, is there no dynamic man of action, the rebel who will help determine the aspect of the collective expression of tomorrow? Ponder this question and know that to make beautiful creations for the sake of their aesthetic value will have no social significance tomorrow, will be nonsensical self-gratification. Every era contains the conditions for providing a rebel.

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  Piet Zwart

  Beautiful   Men   Self  

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• A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!

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  Emily Dickinson

  Nature   Kings   Spring  

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.

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  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Stupid   Light   People  

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• It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.

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  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life   Inspiring   Wisdom  

  Diary (1843)

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• Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.

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  Bhartrhari

  Wise   Adversity   Moon  

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• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

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  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying   Peace   Elephants  

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 22, 2014

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• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying   Justice   Sides  

  "The secrets of a peacemaker". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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