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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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  • #10
    Howard Zinn
    “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: nationalism, patriotism, war
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: dream, imagination, reality, war
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  • #12
    “War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: misattributed-bernard-shaw, misattributed-bertrand-russell, war
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    Bill Watterson
    “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
    ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
    tags: army, fighting, peace, soldiers, war
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu
    tags: class-struggle, war
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    George Carlin
    “How is it possible to have a civil war?”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: euphemism, funny, humor, terminology, war
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: patriotism, war
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    Elie Wiesel
    “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”
    ― elie wiesel
    tags: genocide, holocaust, war, witness
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    John Fowles
    “The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."

    "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."

    "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”
    ― John Fowles, The Magus
    tags: betrayal, hitler, tragedy, war
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #23
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Maurice Switzer
    “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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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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  • #28
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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