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#1

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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#2

“أن تتحلى بالأخلاق فى عالم بلا أخلاق أمر غير أخلاقى.”
― Imre Kertész, الراية الإنجليزية، المحضر

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#3

“لا شيء يثبت أننا أكثر من لا شيء.”
― Emil Cioran

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#4

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: aristocracy, capitalism, corruption, government, history, oppression, power, rationalization, society

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#5

“من أنتم ؟”
― معمر القذافي

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#6

“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”
― Carl Sagan

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#7

“.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot' ”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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#8

“By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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#9

“Understanding is a kind of ecstasy”
― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

tags: ecstasy, understanding

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#10

“عاقل جدا لدرجة إن الناس فاهمه إني مجنون .... أو مجنون جدا لدرجة إني فاهم إني عاقل”
― يوسف إدريس, المهزلة الأرضية

tags: جنون, عقل

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#11

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#12

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#13

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#14

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#15

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#16

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

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#17

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

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#18

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: patriotism, politics

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#19

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

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#20

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: freedom, inspirational-quotes, loss, ownership

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#21

“Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: desire, men

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#22

“We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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#23

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress

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#24

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

tags: eternity, impermanence, journey, life, mujo

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#25

“What are men? Mortal gods.
What are gods? Immortal men.”
― Heraclitus

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#26

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: adaptation, change, open-mindedness, self-improvement

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#27

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: bernard-shaw, irish, pigs, pointlessness

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#28

“Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

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