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1 " Do you recall what Thomas Jefferson said? ‘If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.’ Gandhi agreed. ‘An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more "
― Brandt Legg , The Justar Journal: The Last Librarian complete series
2 " The unknowing masses don’t realize they are trapped in a tangle of subterfuge and slowly suffocating inside a counterfeit paradise. "
3 " The truth is the truth whether someone believes it or not. It will not change, but truth has an interesting way of working. It stays the same and waits patiently while everyone else changes. "
4 " There are so many things that you have no idea about, dreams which remain on your tongue when you speak, unappreciated in crossing the sea of imagination. Places to travel to when there is no one left to blame, hidden realms where invitations were long engraved but now gather dust, unopened. "
5 " A peace maintained by that much death is a false peace, "
6 " A government that uses prisons as a tool to control is destined to become imprisoned by its control. "
7 " Hamlet. “To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come . . . "
8 " The ornament of time is a way of looking at life, the world, and the entire universe. It makes it easier for our minds to comprehend our connection to the other people and events that surround us. Speaking and thinking in terms of “one hundred years ago” is something we can understand; a linear look into the past, or our own age, or picturing the future as a date so many “years” ahead. But it is not much different from seeing the ocean as three meters deep because below that it is dark, or assuming that the stars visible in the night sky are all there is. Time is a funny thing because it is a pool we swim in rather than a path we walk. "
9 " I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?” Perhaps "
10 " There is no greater force in the universe than the recognition of the dream and the knowledge that all energy emanates from one source. Whatever name you call it, this thing is best described as love.” That "
11 " Books are more than words, they’re dreams, ideas, and answers, and that is why they fear them,” he said to himself. "