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    Thomas Sowell
    “When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
    tags: political
    225 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114448 likes

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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119193 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127287 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148523 likes

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  • #6
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
    6087 likes

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    Gloria Steinem
    “Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.”
    ― Gloria Steinem, The Trouble With Rich Women
    tags: feminism, feminist, gloria-steinem, radical-feminism, victim-blaming, victim-mentality, victimhood
    40 likes

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  • #8
    Mario Puzo
    “Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.”
    ― Mario Puzo, The Godfather
    tags: behind, crime, every, fortune, successful
    248 likes

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  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: reputation
    100 likes

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  • #10
    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
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  • #11
    “A child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth”
    ― African Proverb
    212 likes

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  • #12
    Frida Kahlo
    “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
    611 likes

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  • #13
    Desmond Tutu
    “There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river.

    We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    152 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
    tags: evolution, extinction, science, survival
    348 likes

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  • #15
    “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
    ― Franklin Leonard
    tags: equality
    106 likes

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  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, experience, knowledge
    373 likes

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  • #17
    Steven Pinker
    “Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with the word no.”
    ― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
    ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
    2127 likes

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    Robin Hobb
    “A lock does no more than keep an honest man honest,”
    ― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest
    6 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    617 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

    —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1955, curiosity, mystery
    6829 likes

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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
    ― Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being
    tags: assumptions, hammer, instrumentalism, problem-solving, psychology, science, temptation
    1087 likes

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  • #23
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “History is written by the winners.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: history
    458 likes

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  • #24
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “If you think safety is expensive, try pricing an accident, as the sign says.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (Vorkosigan Saga
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  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #26
    Edward Snowden
    “When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.”
    ― Edward Snowden
    tags: crime, diplomacy, exposing, insipirational, intelligence, secrecy
    50 likes

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    Eduardo Galeano
    “Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.”
    ― Eduardo Galeano
    86 likes

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  • #28
    Frank Miller
    “The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
    ― Frank Miller
    tags: batman, comic-book-heroes, frank-miller
    1685 likes

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  • #29
    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.”
    ― Pierre Laplace
    tags: astronomy, atheist, god, humor, mathematics, napoleon, science
    41 likes



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