Dare to learn.Dare to relearn.Dare to outlearn.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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I’ve heard that sometimes a version of you must die before another more enlightened version can be born. I think that’s true after watching the corpse of myself walk around.

~ Julie Flygare

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Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.

~ Edward Said

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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

~ Robert Henri

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Let the light of love enlighten the whole world. Let the power of love overpower all the evils.

~ Debasish Mridha

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The ignorant person is completely unaware of one's mistakes.The wise person acknowledges and learns from one's mistakes.The enlightened person realizes that there are no mistakes.

~ Hrishikesh Agnihotri

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Over the years, I’ve discovered that as the years go by, sometimes we are energized and enlighten and sometimes we are demoralized and disheartened to realize that in some situations our beginning is our end and in others our end is our beginning.

~ Martin Guevara Urbina

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