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#1

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#2

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

tags: love

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#3

“دواؤك فيك وما تُبصر وداؤك منك وما تَشعر
وَ تزعم أنك جرمٌ صغير،،وفيك انطوى العالمُ الأكبرُ”
― علي بن أبي طالب

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#4

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

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#5

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#6

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

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#7

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

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#8

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

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#9

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#10

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

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#11

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

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#12

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty

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#13

“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
― George Orwell

tags: life-happiness

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#14

“Big Brother is Watching You.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#15

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#16

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

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#17

“أحب القراءة فقط كما أحببت الذهاب لمشاهدة الأفلام، أو تصفح الجرائد و المجلات، لم أكن أفعل هذه الأشياء لأكتسب نوعاً من المميزات، أو للحصول على نتيجة ما، أو ربما لأفكر فى نفسى كشخص فوق العادى، أو أكثر معرفة، أو أكثر عمقاً من الآخرين، أستطيع حتى أن أقول إن كونى دودة كتب علمنى نوعاً من التواضع”
― أورهان باموق, The New Life

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#18

“هل قانوني هو الوقوع في حب الإنسان الخطأ؟”
― رضوى عاشور, خديجة وسوسن

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#19

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#20

“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: awesome, friendship, inspirational

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#21

“لم أفهم معنى ذلك الموت ، لا أفهم معنى للموت .. لكن ما دام محتماً فلنفعل شيئاً يبرر حياتنا . فلنترك بصمة على هذه الأرض قبل أن نغادرها .”
― بهاء طاهر, واحة الغروب

tags: موت-هدف-غاية

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#22

“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: choices, eternal-life, human-desire, immortality, money, wisdom

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#23

“Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: inspirational, names

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#24

“Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide — except perhaps Hogwarts.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: banks, gringotts

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#25

“جَمال المرْأةِ لا يُرى....إنه يُكتَشَفْ ”
― مريد البرغوثي

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#26

“القبول بالنسبي أكثر حكمة من التعلق بالمطلق.”
― رضوى عاشور, سراج

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#27

“الإنتظار.

كلنا يعرف الإنتظار.

أن تنتظر ساعة، يوما أو يومين، شهراً أو سنة و ربما سنوات.
تقول طالت، و لكنك تنتظر.

كم يمكن أن ننتظر؟”
― رضوى عاشور, الطنطورية

tags: إنتظار

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#28

“لا أحنُّ إلى أي شيء
فلا أمس يمضي ولا الغد يأتي
ولا حاضري يتقدَّم لا شيء يحدث لي!
ليتني حجر”
― محمود درويش, أثر الفراشة

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#29

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
― George Bernard Shaw, BBC Radio presents Man and superman

tags: food, gluttony, love

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#30

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

(Letter 16, 1657)”
― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

tags: brevity, conciseness, correspondence, humor, letters, pithy, wit, writing

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