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"If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing." — John Brunner 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Truth is not violated only by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence." – Henri Frédéric Amiel 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plum crazy." — Ken Kesey 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Ignorance does not make you fireproof when the world is burning." ― Nelou Keramati 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. It helps remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world." — Dolly Parton (Happy 9/25!) 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith." – Percy Bysshe Shelley 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“It is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying, ‘We’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off air if we don’t like what you’re saying.’ ” — Sen. Ted Cruz 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading humanity, and studying all the various editions of it." — Lord Chesterfield 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...." — John Keats Autumn starts at 8:05 pm tomorrow. 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. We have turned our backs on silence. Day after day we invent machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation." — Jean Arp 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor." —Samuel Johnson 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions we make are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of." — C. S. Lewis 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Nationalism trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest,' but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is." — Sydney J. Harris 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end." — Barack Obama 📷🌱

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back." — Leo Tolstoy 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." — Jessica Mitford 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Whenever A attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon B, A is most likely a scoundrel" —H.L. Mencken 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold." — John Leonard 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." — Winston Churchill 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction” — John Steinbeck 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Diplomacy without armaments is like music without instruments." — Frederick the Great 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

'The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes." — Mary Renault 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught and the last river is polluted, when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money." — Alanis Obomsawin 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"It’s not so much that nothing means anything, but more that it keeps meaning nothing. There’s no release, just gurus and self-appointed gods and hucksters." — Charles Bukowski 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all." — Ogden Nash 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." — George Orwell 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag." — Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." — Louis D. Brandeis 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I'm driven by two main principles: Know more today about the world than I knew yesterday, and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you." — Neil deGrasse Tyson 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves. This is plain even to a blind man” — Plato 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world." — Miyamoto Musashi 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

'The only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough." — Ted Hughes 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"I love that tomorrow morning's sunrise doesn't define itself by tonight's sunset.” — Steve Maraboli 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." — Alfred Hitchcock 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." — The Declaration of Independence 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable." — Aldous Huxley 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“The very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.” — Toni Morrison 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist." — Winona LaDuke 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you." — Elsie de Wolfe 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"We cannot have science in bits and pieces, applying it where we feel safe and ignoring it where we feel threatened. That way lies hypocrisy, self-deception and a dangerously constrained future." — James Randi 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing defeat." — Edith Hamilton 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.” — H. G. Wells 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"The true civilization is where every one gives to every other every right that they claim for themselves." — Robert G. Ingersoll 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." — Henry Kissinger 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." — Guy de Maupassant🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." — Alexander Pope 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest." — Benjamin Franklin 🌱📷

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell." — Harry S Truman 🌱📷

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