{"quotes":[{"text":"My mother always wanted to live near the water,' she said. 'She said it's the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.","author":"Megan Miranda","tags":["africa","beautiful","coast","connect","connection","contact","country","death","distance","distances","foot","girl","inspirational","knowing","lake","linking","links","living","maine","mom","mother","mum","near","ocean","opposite","oppressive","proximity","relationship","sad","sea","shore","sides","thinking","thoughts","toe","together","true","truth","water","wisdom","wise","world"],"id":58703,"author_id":"Megan+Miranda"},{"text":"People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad","castle","castles","dungeon","dungeons","edifice","edifices","food-for-thought","gain","gainful","gains","good","good-or-bad","heal","impress","impression","israelmore-ayivor","kill","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","manipulate","manipulations","manipulator","manipulators","mislead","misleader","misleaders","oppress","oppression","oppressive","oppressor","oppressors","pain","pain-and-gain","painful","pains","people","personal-development","push","self-improvement","vice","vices","virtue","virtues"],"id":89360,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions'. They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela...","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["dies","dream","dream-big","dreams","excellence","extra-mile","followers","food-for-thought","freedom","governance","impress","impression","impressive","impressor","israelmore-ayivor","lead","leader","leaders","leadership","live","martin-luther","martin-luther-king-jr","nelson-mandela","oppression","oppressive","oppressor","opress","passion","quality","true-leaders","vision","visionary","visions"],"id":146080,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["comfortable","food-for-thought","impact","influence","israelmore-ayivor","lead-people","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","misleaders","oppressive","oppressors","stand-up"],"id":146686,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Freedom can be forgotten in the repressive countries. To remember freedom, it will be enough to watch a happy seagull flying in the sky!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["fascism","fascist-country","freedom","freedom","freedom","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","oppressive","repressive","seagull","seagulls","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":158058,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","arrogance","arrogant","behavior","behaviour","funny","hilarious","humble","humility","humor","humorous","humour","insufferable","insupportable","intolerable","joke","jokes","modest","modesty","oppressive","overpowering","overwhelming","satire","tolerable","tolerate","too-much","unacceptable","unbearable","unendurable"],"id":279111,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"These young men, in other words, represented a variety of types, but one thing they had in common was that they'd all given up on committing positively to anything in life. This was not their fault, however. The blame lay with a certain ubiquitous spirit of the times, transmitted to them by their respective mothers. And perhaps it goes without saying that this 'spirit of the times' was in fact an oppressive value system based primarily upon the absolute certainty that nothing in this world was ever going to change.","author":"Ryū Murakami","tags":["change","oppressive","spirit","times"],"id":306011,"author_id":"Ry%C5%AB+Murakami"},{"text":"Love has the power to create an inviting space in the lives of people. But if daily routine kills dreamy or passionate thoughts, the constraint of the room may become oppressive and the emptiness unbearable. The room loses then its original fullness and turns into a place of nothingness. ( ' Another empty room' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["constraint","create","daily","dreamy","emptiness","fullness","inviting","lives","lose","love","love","nothingness","oppressive","original","passionate","people","place","power","room","routine","space","thoughts","unbearable"],"id":338594,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"Once the dust of volcanic love has settled and the harshness of a new reality has become oppressive, disillusionment may have to be mended, wounds to be healed and emotional fallouts to be taken care of, mindfully ( 'Is that all there is ?').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["disillusionment","dust","emotional","harshness","love","mindfull","new-reality","oppressive","volcanic","wounds"],"id":366382,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone thought the yellow might calm them. But I couldn’t see how. Such was the oppressive ugliness of this building it would have been like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald.","author":"Jon Ronson","tags":["architecture","buildings","cadaver","humor","oppression","oppressive","ronald-mcdonald","ugliness"],"id":422085,"author_id":"Jon+Ronson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}