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Good QUOTES

"Whoa, Hold on! There’s got to be some sort of peaceful resolution here! Or even a violent resolution, where I’m standing over there.".

Rocket - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
 
Can you bury your heart?
Can you hide your decency?
Can you continue to pretend to be one of them?
Even as, little by little, it kills the person you really are.
I've continued to study their ways, read all that I can.
It's getting easier to pass.
Which is exactly what I feared the most.

Michael Burnham, Star Trek Discovery
 
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"Once upon a time, I, Zhuangzi, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Zhuangzi. Soon I awakened, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things."

Lao Tzu (369 BCE to 286 BCE)
 
tachyon said:
"Once upon a time, I, Zhuangzi, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Zhuangzi. Soon I awakened, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things."

Lao Tzu (369 BCE to 286 BCE)
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He who would have good government without its correlative misrule does not understand it.
Lao Tzu
(From memory so the last bit may be wrong)

You can’t beat Lao Tzu
Me
 
kestrel said:
(?) The (human, reactionary) engine driving the "good guys" requires the misdeeds of the "bad guys."
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That's a different take! But i can see whay you mean.
I imagine it as a bit more yingy--yangy.
Which came first - good or bad. The chinese may say they both arise mutually.
Note the symbol on the white side of the ying/yang has a bit of black in it and the opposite.
So in one sense the definition - misrule and good government arise mutually.
In another sense,more reality based. You put a 'system' on a bunch of humans,some of those won't comply - nothings perfect.

My quote would be every solution creates a new problem. So you create a new system then.... youre gonna get something unpredicted.(misrule)

So a bit of each of those and more besides,no doubt.
 
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum" - Noam Chomsky.
 
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