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#1

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

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#2

“Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking.
Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life.
Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness.
Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

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#3

“The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies

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#4

“The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer's soul is blind, and there is no true goodness or fine love without the greatest possible degree of clear-sightedness.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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#5

“But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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#6

“What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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#7

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

tags: capitalism, class, failed-systems, greed

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#8

“There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

tags: inspirational, philosophy

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#9

“Samuel thundered that no American factory hand was worth more than eighty cents a day. And yet he could be thankful for the opportunity to pay a hundred thousand dollars or more for a painting by an Italian three centuries dead. And he capped this insult by giving paintings to museums for the spiritual elevation of the poor. The museums were closed on Sundays.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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#10

“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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#11

“Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.”
― tom wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

tags: ken-kesey

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#12

“The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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#13

“YOU ARE HEREBY EMPOWERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

tags: ken-kesey

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#14

“Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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#15

“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

tags: opening-lines

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#16

“What am I doing in this eternal winter?”
― Franz Kafka, A Country Doctor

tags: a-country-doctor, franz-kafka

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#17

“I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.”—A. Einstein”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

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#18

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

tags: democracy, mass-media, propaganda, repression, totalitarianism

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#19

“I love my country, not my government.”
― Jesse Ventura

tags: allegiance, bill-of-rights, constitution, despotism, freedom, government, jesse-ventura, libertarianism, liberty, martial-law, nationalism, patriot, patriotic, patriotism, police-state, ron-paul, totalitarianism

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#20

“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great."

[Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek, Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011]”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: brainwashing, communism, evil, society, stalinism, totalitarianism

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#21

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: evil

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#22

“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, george-orwell, politics, socialism, totalitarianism

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#23

“The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

tags: censorship, conspiracy-theories, democracy, dictatorship, freedom, human-rights, totalitarianism

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#24

“When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.”
― Larken Rose

tags: anarchist, anarchy, ancap, coercion, delusion, democracy, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression-principle, political, politics, self-knowledge, statism, superstition, totalitarianism, tyranny, voluntaryism, voting

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#25

“The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy

tags: 1975, authoritarianism, obedience

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#26

“ONLY THE MADMAN IS ABSOLUTELY SURE”
― Robert Shea, The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan

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#27

“Simon sipped at his coffee. “Everything in life is a hallucination,” he said simply. “Everything in death, too,” he added. “The universe is just putting us on. Handing us a line.”
― Robert Shea, The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan

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#28

“Synchronicity is as universal as gravity. When you start looking you find it everywhere.”)”
― Robert Shea, The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan

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#29

“The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret societies. —Ishmael Reed, Mumbo-Jumbo”
― Robert Shea, The Illuminatus! Trilogy

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#30

“The value of the matter is not worth one one ten-thousandth the value of the form,” said Drake.”
― Robert Shea, The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan

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