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    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
    ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    tags: censorship, lies, lying, silence, truth
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    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
    ― Henry Louis Gates Jr
    tags: african-american, american, censorship, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-read, literary
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    Stephen Fry
    “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

    [I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: censorship, free-speech, humor, libel, offense, philosophical, politics, sarcasm, slander, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: censorship
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    Golda Meir
    “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
    ― Golda Meir, My Life
    tags: censorship, history, orwellian, past, present
    307 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: censorship, dissent, society, suppression, trouble
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    “Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”
    ― Margaret A. Edwards
    tags: censor, censoring, censors, censorship, freedom-of-choice, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-express, love, love-story, lover, lovers, lovers-fictional, minors-rights, rite-of-passage, rites-of-passage, teen, teen-fantasy, teen-fiction, teenage-love, teenagers, teenagers-and-parents, teens, young-adult, young-adult-fantasy, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adult-readers, young-adult-romance, young-adult-urban-fantasy, young-love, young-lovers
    189 likes

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    Steve Maraboli
    “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: change, control, empowerment, inspirational, letting-go, life, motivational
    2706 likes

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    Noam Chomsky
    “All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: apathy, complacency, consumerism, control, learned-helplessness, resignation, the-powers-that-be
    761 likes

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  • #10
    Amy Tan
    “You see what power is – holding someone else’s fear
    in your hand and showing it to them”
    ― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife
    tags: fear, true-power
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    Stephen King
    “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: be-fool, fool, shame
    204 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
    tags: compassion, meaning, meaninglessness
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    Alan W. Watts
    “And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: meaning, meaninglessness, the-way-of-liberation
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    Stefan Zweig
    “For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday
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    Stefan Zweig
    “Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday
    tags: life, living
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    Stefan Zweig
    “Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?”
    ― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story
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    Stefan Zweig
    “In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...
    It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story
    tags: chess, chess-game
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    Stefan Zweig
    “We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story
    tags: disappointment, happiness, life-lessons, perception, perception-of-reality, perceptions, reality
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    Stefan Zweig
    “For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story
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    Stefan Zweig
    “There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity
    tags: compassionityaf, pity
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    Stefan Zweig
    “For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.”
    ― Stefan Zweig
    tags: blame, brutality, evil, life, realize, weakness, world, worst
    78 likes

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    Stefan Zweig
    “Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again and again to the ancient constellations that shone on my childhood, comforting myself with the inherited confidence that, some day, this relapse will appear only an interval in the eternal rhythm of progress onward and upward.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday
    67 likes

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  • #23
    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
    1655 likes

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    Patti Smith
    “I felt, watching Jim Morrison, that I could do that. I can’t say why I thought this. I had nothing in my experience to make me think that would ever be possible, yet I harbored that conceit. I felt both kinship and contempt for him. I could feel his self-consciousness as well as his supreme confidence. He exuded a mixture of beauty and self-loathing, and mystic pain, like a West Coast Saint Sebastian. When”
    ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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