"War is what happens when language fails."
-Margaret Atwood
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"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
-Margaret Atwood
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"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."
-Margaret Atwood
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"Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now."
-Margaret Atwood
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"Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
-Margaret Atwood
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"If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't."
-Margaret Atwood
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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