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#1

“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: excess, nietzsche

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#2

“The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.”
― Martin Amis

tags: culture, multiculturalism, politics, question-time-tv-series

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#3

“God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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#4

“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

tags: expectations, experience, grief, mourning, others, personal-experience, reality, suffering

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#5

“Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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#6

“Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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#7

“Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: competition, deserving, destruction, dictatorship, entitlement, man, nature, overpowering, power, pride, selfishness, stealing, thieves, tyranny

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#8

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
― Euripides, Orestes

tags: administration, deceit, deception, elections, evil, false-promises, falsehood, government, power, seduction, tyranny

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#9

“Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland

tags: a-perfect-world, bigby-wolf, freedom, storyville, tyranny, werewolf-governments

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#10

“If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: candidate, election, freedom, funny, funny-but-true, humor, leadership, masses, politics, respect, theory, tyranny, voice, voting

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#11

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

tags: humility

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#12

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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#13

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

tags: criticism

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#14

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

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#15

“Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.”
― Martin Luther

tags: christianity, martin-luther, sin

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#16

“If we do not love God and His Word what difference does it make if we love anything at all?”
― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

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#17

“I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die.”
― Leanna Renee Hieber, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker

tags: ghosts, life-and-death, miss-percy-parker, outsider, strangely-beautiful

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#18

“As empaths, our high level of sensitivity means that we are prone to feeling like eternal outsiders who are in the world but not quite of the world.”
― Aletheia Luna, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing

tags: empath, empaths, highly-sensitive-people, intuition, outcast, outsider, rejection, sensitivity

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#19

“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

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#20

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: alcohol, drinking, sobriety

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#21

“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics: The Annotated

tags: alcohol, drinking, happy

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#22

“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: drinking

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#23

“I consider it somewhat psychopathic to label someone from afar as a psychopath. We love nothing more than to declare other people insane, especially people we don’t like.”
― Jon Ronson, The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the “Alt-Right”

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