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    Siegfried Sassoon
    “I have always been considerably addicted to my own company.”
    ― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
    tags: company, sassoon, solitude, ww1, wwi
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    James Herbert
    “He never walked away from a problem, but occasionally liked to bury it and dig it up later.”
    ― James Herbert, The Fog
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    ― Robert Ingersoll
    tags: adversity, character, power
    3241 likes

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  • #4
    James Herbert
    “Sometimes only evil could defeat another evil. Degrees,”
    ― James Herbert, Sepulchre
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  • #5
    Veronica Roth
    “I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
    tags: fear, love, power, powerful
    1721 likes

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    Malcolm X
    “If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
    ― Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: force, police-brutality, power, resistance, solidarity, violence
    1024 likes

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    John Marrs
    “To anyone who ever gave you confidence - you owe them a lot.”
    ― John Marrs, The Wronged Sons
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  • #8
    “Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: human-nature, power, wisdom
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  • #9
    John Marrs
    “It was better to remain on my island than drown in somebody else’s sea.”
    ― John Marrs, When You Disappeared
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  • #10
    Plato
    “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
    ― Plato
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    John Marrs
    “I no longer had any choice in what to do next. I knew I had to go and see the only person who could bring an end to all of this, and beg the woman who killed my wife and baby to show me mercy.”
    ― John Marrs, The Good Samaritan
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “In times of war, the law falls silent.

    Silent enim leges inter arma”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war
    792 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    William Shakespeare
    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    6047 likes

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    Markus Zusak
    “It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death
    5670 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: darkness, human-nature, moon
    3791 likes

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    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    Michel Foucault
    “Where there is power, there is resistance.”
    ― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
    tags: activism, leftism, power, resistance
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    William Shakespeare
    “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: concealment, dark-plans, darkness, stealth
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Non nobis solum nati sumus.

    (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: duty, helping-others, latin, self
    711 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Noam Chomsky
    “For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
    tags: crime, double-standards, hypocrisy, politics, power, war-crimes
    704 likes

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    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    ― François Rabelais
    tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter
    4568 likes

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  • #25
    Frank Sinatra
    “Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
    ― Frank Sinatra
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    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: heartbreak
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: darkness
    2670 likes

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  • #28
    Emily Dickinson
    “One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: darkness, poetry, sadness
    482 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
    7634 likes



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