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What we call evil is only a necessary moment in our endless development.

—Franz Kafka

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Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counterproductive but trivial.

—Tom Robbins

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The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Every government, whatever its form, character, or color — be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi, or Bolshevist — is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.

—Emma Goldman

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I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

—Charles Schulz

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If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

—Hazel Henderson

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again. … The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

—J. G. Ballard

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The old futures have a way of hanging around. … Everyone sort of knows that the real future is going to be cluttered with all the same junk we have today, except it will be old and beat up and there will be more of it.

—William Gibson

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I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

—Veronica Roth in Insurgent

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

—Edward Abbey

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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

—Robert A. Heinlein

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I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

—August Strindberg

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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

—Thomas Sowell

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Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

—George Will

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