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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Well, someone slap my butt and give me a hero cookie. (Nick)”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity
    tags: funny, hero, sarcasm
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    Ned Vizzini
    “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: depression, sadness, suicide
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    Tom Leveen
    “I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.”
    ― Tom Leveen, Party
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    George Sand
    “We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.”
    ― George Sand, Mauprat
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    Voltaire
    “One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: illusion, optimism, status-quo
    243 likes

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    Megan McCafferty
    “Don't talk to strangers. Don't do drugs. Don't smoke. Don't drink and drive. Don't have sex. Wear a condom. Wear sunblock. Wear a seat belt. Wear a helmet. If you see something, say something. Just say no. Stop, drop, and roll. Stop, look, and listen. Look both ways before you cross the street...

    Safety is an illusion. Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not. You can check left, check right, check left again before you step off the curb and into the crosswalk, but that won't stop an anonymous asshole in his shitty pickup from putting you in intensive care...”
    ― Megan McCafferty, Perfect Fifths
    tags: illusion, safety
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: close-mindedness, ignorance, willful-ignorance
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    Thomas Paine
    “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
    tags: close-mindedness, simile, stubbornness
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    Brooks Atkinson
    “The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.”
    ― Brooks Atkinson
    tags: close-mindedness, experience, inexperience, open-mindeness, perspective, point-of-view
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    Eric Schmidt
    “A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.”
    ― Eric Schmidt
    tags: close-mindedness, eric-schmidt, mindfulness, perception, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, philosophy, religion
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: afterlife, atheism, humanism, secularism
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Socrates
    “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: gossip
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    Sherwood Smith
    “It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.”
    ― Sherwood Smith, Court Duel
    tags: gossip
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: confidentiality, gossip, secrets
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    Susan Wittig Albert
    “The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.”
    ― Susan Wittig Albert, The Tale of Hill Top Farm
    tags: gossip, truth
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
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  • #21
    Stephen Fry
    “My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.”
    ― Stephen Fry
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    Mark A. Roeder
    “The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful thing. But, when you mention two guys in love, they forget all that and freak out.”
    ― Mark A. Roeder, Outfield Menace
    tags: gay-romance, homophobia, homosexuality
    118 likes

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    Anton Szandor LaVey
    “Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years!”
    ― Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: morality, morals
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    Kentetsu Takamori
    “How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received.”
    ― Kentetsu Takamori
    tags: buddhism, inspirational, life-lessons, morals
    64 likes

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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4092 likes

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  • #27
    Stephen King
    “People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”
    ― Stephen King, The Stand
    tags: ethics, morality
    630 likes

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  • #28
    “War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: misattributed-bernard-shaw, misattributed-bertrand-russell, war
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    Maya Angelou
    “The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?”
    ― Maya Angelou Kwabena kodom Nicholas Sparks Rosa Parks
    tags: ignorance, life, mistakes, right
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    Kent Marrero
    “The thing about gay marriage is simply that it's not gay. It's marriage. If you are uncomfortable with marriage, you can not outlaw marriage. And, shocking, even if homosexuality makes someone uncomfortable, one can not outlaw identifying as or practicing homosexuality. So seeing as both homosexuality and marriage are legal, their being combined should be no big deal.”
    ― Cristina Marrero
    tags: defense-of-marriage-act, doma, gay-marriage, glbtq, homosexuality, marriage, politics
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