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Milan Kundera Writer
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"We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers."

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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"The material comes from whenever you realize that you and someone else have something in common. So any conversation you've had more than once, anything you see happening to you that you see happening to a friend, you go, Hmmm, that's a situation I can make funny."

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
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"Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you"

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself."

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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
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"The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche."

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Mariel Hemingway Actress, Author
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"I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?"

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war."

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