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#1

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

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#2

“People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.”
― George Carlin

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#3

“Think of how it all started: America was founded by slave owners who informed us, "All men are created equal." All "men," except Indians, niggers, and women. Remember, the founders were a small group of unelected, white, male, land-holding slave owners who also, by the way, suggested their class be the only one allowed to vote. To my mind, that is what's known as being stunningly--and embarrassingly--full of shit.”
― George Carlin

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#4

“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

tags: live, war

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#5

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#6

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking

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#7

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#8

“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

tags: democrats, liberal, politics

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#9

“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

tags: assistance, compassion, development-aid, duty, freedom, liberty, moral-obligation, poor, rich, social-security, society, third-world, wealth

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#10

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress

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#11

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: open-mindedness, simile

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#12

“I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

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#13

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

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#14

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
― George Carlin

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity

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#15

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time

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#16

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity

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#17

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: peacefulness, political-rights, protest, revolution, violence

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#18

“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.”
― George Carlin

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#19

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

tags: inspirational

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#20

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, advocacy, protest

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#21

“Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”
― Richard Nixon

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