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  • #1
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    Hemingway, Ernest

  • #2
    Stephen Colbert
    “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
    Stephen Colbert

  • #3
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

    [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]
    John F. Kennedy

  • #4
    George Carlin
    “Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.”
    George Carlin

  • #5
    Helen Keller
    “The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.”
    Helen Keller, Rebel Lives: Helen Keller

  • #6
    Jeffrey D. Sachs
    “History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
    Jeffrey Sachs

  • #7
    Helen Keller
    “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
    Helen Keller

  • #8
    William Blake
    “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
    William Blake

  • #9
    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

  • #10
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #11
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #12
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man is the cruelest animal.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #14
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
    Nietzsche

  • #15
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.”
    Michael Bassey Johnson



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