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“I challenge us to change, because as Charles Darwin once observed, 'It is not the strongest species that will survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.'”

- Harriet A. Washington From Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Pave my days with the sneaky breeze so I can taste the details of an ordinary moment Because I do not want to name the obelisks or to drink from the labels of your noisy tongue Naked I will bear the climbing free from the weight of a face and a name.

J. Carlos Szczepanik - (Volanting)

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Clarinha, a cientista.

“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.”

— Carl Sagan

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“I am tired of world, these people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.”

- Dr. Manhattan

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“You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to.“

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The world... Full of noise. It steals our time away. Our perishable time. It makes difficult to discriminate the miracle from the noises. And life vanishes by filth. Actually, we never see with eyes.

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“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

- Henry David Thoreau

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You will find only blood behind the door 18. If reality is only in your mind ... Why facing the truth now?

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Mary Oliver reading "Wild Geese"

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

- Mary Oliver

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Antes da Renascença, obedecer cegamente as ordens de seu senhor, era honroso. A história se repete, assim como a moda que vem e vai, e retorna novamente, meramente disfarçada. Embora as áreas do conhecimento avancem com o passar dos anos (pelo esforço de poucos), uma vez mais, a humanidade dá sinais de estar passando por um retrocesso. Uma forma de ignorar e negar verdades. Voltar-se para a escuridão, ainda que isso custe flagelar os próprios olhos. Uma idade das trevas forçada. E ao contrário do que muitos pensam, isso não está acontecendo somente aqui no Brasil, mas em vários países. Os Estados Unidos vêm sofrendo com um analfabetismo científico desde 2005. Mas como a história que se repete, sabemos que isso não vai durar para sempre. Nós que hoje resistimos, por verdadeiro ou falso egoísmo, somos aquelas velas que Galileu colocava no peitoril da janela, para aplacar a escuridão da noite até que a manhã chegasse. Você não faz ideia de quanta escuridão uma única vela afugenta, imagine então várias. Aguente firme, não deixe sua chama morrer, logo vai amanhecer. Em defesa da Educação.

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Will tomorrow be another day?

Octavio Paz, from “Last Dawn,” The Collected Poems, 1957-1987 (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1991)

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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the Thing that has them.

C.S. Lewis

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“Tu mesmo,  que vagou por planetas antigos e sem nomes  ansiando domar o imperceptível  só para olhar pra trás e querer nomear a estrada  Toda essa gente não te impressiona  Sabem o nome de todas as pedras  mas não compreendem nenhum fenômeno.”

Jozimar Carlos Szczepanik - (O Nome das Coisas)

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How could you ever possibly accept anything at all that doesn’t taste like music?

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“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"- Rob Gordon”

― Nick Hornby, in High Fidelity