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Bob H is currently reading

Tiny Nature: Discovering Nature's Hidden World Through the Lens of Macrophotography

by Jamie Rosencrans

bookshelves: currently-reading, botany, nature, photography

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Sep 09, 2025 04:57PM

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The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena / Stories and Songs

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Oct 31, 2019 02:18PM

“Claiming all power for the purpose of prosperity and justice in society is conflicting to its own cause, rather authorizing individual authority is the just way toward a better society, because each individual has the right to decide about himself, and for collective decision making in society, all individual has the right to provide their input in it, after that majorities’ rule and minorities’ rights is the key to move forward, otherwise its destruction of society.”
― Zaman Ali, GOVERNMENT Servant, Not Master

tags: individuality, justice, philosophy, power, prosperity, rights, rule, society

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“Justice is not natural among people, but the struggle for justice is the most noble act in society. Because justice may not be possible, but as it’s the way toward the desired society for each one to live in, that’s why its struggle is noble and regard as the highest act.”
― Zaman Ali, GOVERNMENT Servant, Not Master

tags: justice, natural, noble, people, society

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“No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.”
― Zaman Ali, ZAMANISM Wealth of the People

tags: destroy, philosophy, powerful, protect, resourceful

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“The reality is; there is something which exist but what that something is; remains a question. Either because we are not capable to reveal it yet or because with time and movement it changes itself and has no truth in it. But what’s the reason for its existence without having or revealing any truth, that’s the evidence we need to find.”
― Zaman Ali, EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?

tags: change, epistemology, existence, philosophy, reality, truth

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“Seward felt an involuntary shudder in his limbs. He was also ravished by the irony of the moment. For nearly three years, a thousand voices, including his own, had called for a Cromwell, a dictator, a despot; and in all that time, no one had suspected that there had been, from the beginning, a single-minded dictator in the White House, a Lord Protector of the Union by whose will alone the war had been prosecuted. For the first time, Seward understood the nature of Lincoln's political genius. He had been able to make himself absolute dictator without ever letting anyone suspect that he was anything more than a joking, timid backwoods lawyer, given to fits of humility in the presence of all the strutting military and political peacocks that flocked about him.”
― Gore Vidal, Lincoln

tags: lincoln

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