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🪨 Iffley Bouldering Guide

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"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
— Dr. Seuss

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"I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn't so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things."
— Lucy Grealy

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"Even in the darkest circumstances, there is a light. Sometimes only a glimmer. Trust that light. Find a way back. No matter what it takes."
— Jean-Luc Picard

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"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words."

"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
— Ursula K. Le Guin

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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis

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"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."
— Ernest Hemingway

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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
— Gandhi

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"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
— Marcus Aurelius

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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
— Mortimer Adler

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"We are what we repeatedly do."
— Plato

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"Be as you wish to seem."

"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
— Socrates

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"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?"
— Jeremy Bentham

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
— Dmitry Meerezhkovsky

"In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought."
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it."

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

"... those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil."

"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."
— Hannah Arendt

"The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference;"
— Wilhelm Stekel

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"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

"The best way to know God is to love many things."

"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing."

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."

"I wish they would only take me as I am."

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."

"So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world."
— Vincent Van Gogh

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"The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past."

"Imagine what it would be like to have a bookshelf filled only with books that you really love. Isn’t that image spellbinding? For someone who loves books, what greater happiness could there be?"
— Marie Kondo

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"Why this deficiency? Because much of the design is done by engineers who are experts in technology but limited in their understanding of people. 'We are people ourselves,' they think, 'so we understand people.' But in fact, we humans are amazingly complex. Those who have not studied human behavior often think it is pretty simple. Engineers, moreover, make the mistake of thinking that logical explanation is sufficient: 'If only people would read the instructions,' they say, 'everything would be all right.' Engineers are trained to think logically. As a result, they come to believe that all people must think this way, and they design their machines accordingly. When people have trouble, the engineers are upset, but often for the wrong reason. 'What are these people doing?' they will wonder. 'Why are they doing that?' The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be."

"I used to be an engineer, focused upon technical requirements, quite ignorant of people. Even after I switched into psychology and cognitive science, I still maintained my engineering emphasis upon logic and mechanism. It took a long time for me to realize that my understanding of human behavior was relevant to my interest in the design of technology. As I watched people struggle with technology, it became clear that the difficulties were caused by the technology, not the people."
— Design of Everyday Things

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"There’s nothing so terrible that people can’t get used to it. Some may even come to miss it when it’s gone."
— Michael Cisco, Oneiropaths

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"...you will find that if you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see."

"Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not."

"It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place it becomes rigid and stale."

"You must never give into despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road, and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength."

"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame."
— Iroh

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"But we were sleeping. I’ve been sleeping. And I’ve been turning away from the truth I wanted not to face. There is a wound that won’t heal at the center of the galaxy. There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it’s here. It’s here, and it’s not visiting anymore. It wants to stay. The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep. It’s easy for the dead to tell you to fight, and maybe it’s true, maybe fighting is useless. Perhaps it’s too late. But I’ll tell you this… If I could do it again, I’d wake up early and be fighting these bastards from the start. Fuck the Empire!"

"No, it's not. It's overdue and probably doomed and I'm too old and I don't care anymore."

"Tell him, none of this is his fault. It was already burning. He's just the first spark of the fire. Tell him, he knows everything he needs to know and feels everything he needs to feel. And when the day comes, and those two pull together, he will be an unstoppable force for good. Tell him...I love him more than anything he could ever do wrong."
— Maarva Carassi

"I won't have peace. I'll be worried about you all the time."
— Cassian

"That's just love. Nothing you can do about that. I've never loved anything the way I love you, and I've never fretted on anything more, but this time... you can't stay, and I can't go!"
— Maarva Carassi

"I would rather die trying to take them down than giving them what they want."
— Kino

"There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try."
— Nemik

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"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."

"Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."

"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."

"A monk asked Ts'ui-wei, 'For what reason did the First Patriarch come from the West?' Ts'ui-wei answered, 'Pass me that chin-rest.' As soon as the monk passed it, Ts'ui-wei hit him with it. Another master was having tea with two of his students when he suddenly tossed his fan to one of them, saying, 'What's this?' The student opened it and fanned himself. 'Not bad,' was his comment. 'Now you,' he went on, passing it to the other student, who at once closed the fan and scratched his neck with it. This done, he opened it again, placed a piece of cake on it, and offered it to the master. This was considered even better, for when there are no names the world is no longer 'classified in limits and bounds.'"
— Alan Watts

"We've grown reliant on Imperial tech, and we've made ourselves vulnerable. There's a growing list of things we've known and forgotten, things they've pushed us to forget. Things like freedom."

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