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#1

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

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#2

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
― Anonymous

1280 likes

#3

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― Jack London, White Fang

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#4

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: history

523 likes

#5

“I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,
That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition by: Walt Whitman

tags: cynicism, drudgery, optimism, purpose, work

3 likes

#6

“When Kleiner showed me the sky-line of New York I told him that man is like the coral insect — designed to build vast, beautiful, mineral things for the moon to delight in after he is dead.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

tags: architecture, coral, meaninglessness

6 likes

#7

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton

tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton

2771 likes

#8

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#9

“Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.”
― Yann Martel

tags: faith, life-of-pi, reason, yann-martel

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#10

“You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. (As Silent Bob)”
― Kevin Smith

tags: clerks, love, loyalty, women

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#11

“Your life, as you know it... is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk... and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you will ever meet in your life. (As Bob, regarding children, in Lost in Translation)”
― William James "Bill" Murray

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#12

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

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#13

“I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

tags: alan-moore, future, memories, past, silk-spectre, watchmen

87 likes

#14

“I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.”
― Patrick Stewart

tags: actor, attitude, star-trek, work-ethic

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#15

“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

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#16

“Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: last-words

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