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  • #1
    Thomas Sowell
    “When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
    Thomas Sowell

  • #2
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #3
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #4
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #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

  • #7
    Gloria Steinem
    “Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.”
    Gloria Steinem, The Trouble With Rich Women

  • #8
    Mario Puzo
    “Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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

  • #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

  • #11
    “A child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth”
    African Proverb

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

  • #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

  • #14
    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

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

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #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

  • #18
    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

  • #19
    Robin Hobb
    “A lock does no more than keep an honest man honest,”
    Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

  • #20
    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

  • #21
    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

  • #22
    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

  • #23
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “History is written by the winners.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #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

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #26
    Edward Snowden
    “When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.”
    Edward Snowden

  • #27
    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

  • #28
    Frank Miller
    “The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
    Frank Miller

  • #29
    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.”
    Pierre Laplace



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