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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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    George Orwell
    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: future
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    George Orwell
    “Big Brother is Watching You.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    George Orwell
    “It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: absurd
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    George Orwell
    “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    George Orwell
    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: politics-language
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “There was never a bad peace or a good war.”
    ― Ben Franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
    ― Ben Franklin
    tags: inspirational, proverb
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.”
    ― Ben Franklin
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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Aristotle
    “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: friendship, soul
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    “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
    ― William Durant
    tags: knowledge-habit-inspirational
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    Aristotle
    “Hope is a waking dream.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: dreams, hope
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    Aristotle
    “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: happiness
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    Aristotle
    “Wit is educated insolence.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: definitions, humor
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    Aristotle
    “Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: anger
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
    tags: greatness
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    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder
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    Socrates
    “Know thyself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspirational
    728 likes

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    Socrates
    “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “To find yourself, think for yourself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: independence, self-reliance
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    Socrates
    “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Will Durant
    “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
    ― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
    tags: knowledge, life, misattributed-to-kant, paraphrasing-herbert-spencer, science
    783 likes



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