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#1

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol 1

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#2

“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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#3

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle

tags: fear, freedom

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#4

“I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

tags: religion

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#5

“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry”
― Abraham Lincoln

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#6

“You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.”
― Milton Berle

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#7

“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, liberation, love, marxism, peace, radicalism, socialism, theology

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#8

“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”
― Madeleine Albright

tags: change, choice, free-will, freedom

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#9

“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”
― Voltaire

tags: dependence, inequality

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#10

“‎"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
- Edward R. Murrow”
― Edward R. Murrow, In Search Of Light: The Broadcasts Of Edward R. Morrow, 1938-1961

tags: politics-of-the-united-states

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#11

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

tags: critical-thinking, dogma, freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, inspirational, politics, religion

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#12

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: change, community, incrementalism, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world, yourself

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#13

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: beyond-good-and-evil, friedrich-nietzsche

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#14

“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

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