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    George Orwell
    “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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    René Descartes
    “And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.”
    ― Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
    tags: logic, rationality, truth, wisdom
    216 likes

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    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton
    tags: wisdom
    3773 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
    ― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
    tags: wisdom
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    José Martí
    “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
    ― Jose Marti
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    1777 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
    3538 likes

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    Charles M. Schulz
    “I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
    ― Charles Schultz
    tags: humor, life, wisdom
    1801 likes

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    Nelson Mandela
    “ As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
    tags: curiosity, epigram, tabloid-journalism, wisdom
    1472 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #12
    Paulo Coelho
    “When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    207 likes

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    Will Rogers
    “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational
    3589 likes

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    Nelson Mandela
    “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    Isaac Asimov
    “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Isaac Asimov
    “All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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  • #18
    “[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”
    ― Stephen W. Hawking
    tags: humor, science, stupidity
    444 likes

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    Dante Alighieri
    “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: gates-of-hell, hell, latin, motto
    901 likes

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
    ― Jean Jacques Rousseau
    tags: wisdom
    1138 likes

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    H.G. Wells
    “Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
    tags: human-nature, intelligence, science
    461 likes

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    Malcolm X
    “Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: islam, militancy
    856 likes

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    Malcolm X
    “They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Sylvia Plath
    “TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: science
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    Mark Twain
    “He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
    ― Mark Twain
    288 likes

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    Ernest Rutherford
    “If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.”
    ― Ernest Rutherford
    tags: experiments, science, statistics
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    Douglas Adams
    “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
    tags: douglas-adams
    602 likes

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    Isaac Newton
    “Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation”
    ― Newton
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    Henry Ford
    “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice”
    ― Henry Ford
    216 likes

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  • #31
    Douglas Adams
    “A cup of tea would restore my normality."

    [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
    ― Douglas Adams
    629 likes



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