Erased

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
--George Orwell

Modern World

This was never a referendum on the EU. It was a referendum on the modern world.
--Laurie Penny

Pure

The problem with ideological purity is you can never be pure enough.
--Tom Sullivan

America

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
―Muhammad Ali

Anger

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
--William Shakespeare

Qualities

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
--Samuel Johnson

Tenderness

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.
--Robert Bly

Change

Change is rarely straightforward...Sometimes it's as complex as chaos theory and as slow as evolution. Even things that seem to happen suddenly arise from deep roots in the past or from long-dormant seeds.
--Rebecca Solnit

A Dare

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
--Muhammad Ali

Walking

We're all just walking each other home.
--Ram Dass

Desire

In human terms, the dynamic nature of life manifests itself as desire. There is always something we want, even if what we want is to break free of the bonds of desire.
--Sean Carroll

Griefs

Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.
--Marcel Proust

Fictions

It's not just the ridiculous fictions that confirm my atheism, it's the barbaric things that those fictions make humans do.
--Emlyn Addison

Down

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
―Muhammad Ali

Ideas

It is difficult to kill an idea because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast.
--Neil Gaiman

Creation

Purpose and meaning in life arise through fundamentally human acts of creation, rather than being derived from anything outside ourselves.
--Sean Carroll

Thrive

Because, really, people, part of how we are going to thrive in this imperfect moment is through élan, esprit du corps, fierce hope, and generous hearts.
--Rebecca Solnit

Moral

To be a moral human being is to pay, be obliged to pay, certain kinds of attention.
--Susan Sontag

Service

Service to others is the rent which you pay for your room here on earth.
--Muhammad Ali

Song

A song, I'd say, causes the listener to assume a certain stance. Through some intersection of melody/lyrics/arrangement, it causes a shadow-being within us to get a certain expression on its face and fall into a certain posture.
--George Saunders

Up

Choose to lift people up, not to lower them down--because it is a choice, always, and because in doing so you lift yourself up.
--Maria Popova

Liberty

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
--Thurgood Marshall