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    Roger Waters
    “Wish You Were Here

    So, so you think you can tell
    Heaven from Hell,
    Blue skys from pain.
    Can you tell a green field
    From a cold steel rail?
    A smile from a veil?
    Do you think you can tell?

    And did they get you to trade
    Your heros for ghosts?
    Hot ashes for trees?
    Hot air for a cool breeze?
    Cold comfort for change?
    And did you exchange
    A walk on part in the war
    For a lead role in a cage?

    How I wish, how I wish you were here.
    We're just two lost souls
    Swimming in a fish bowl,
    Year after year,
    Running over the same old ground.
    What have we found?
    The same old fears.
    Wish you were here.”
    ― Roger Waters
    tags: alienation, illusion, lyrics, music, pink-floyd, song-lyrics, syd-barrett
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    Daniel Nayeri
    “If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it's real?”
    ― Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust
    tags: illusion, reality, vileroy
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    Jennifer Egan
    “You said you were a fairy princess
    You said you were a shooting star
    You said we'd go to Bora Bora
    Now look at where the fuck we are”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
    tags: disappointment, illusion, love
    67 likes

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    Elie Wiesel
    “In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.”
    ― Elie Wiesel, Night
    tags: faith, illusion, trust
    152 likes

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  • #5
    Kamryn Adams
    “A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else." -Toyi Ward”
    ― Toyi Ward, Par for the Curse
    tags: self-help, women
    216 likes

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  • #6
    “you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own”
    ― Kerry E. Wagner
    tags: accountability, inspirational, ownership, resourcefulness, responsibility, self-help, self-reliance
    256 likes

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    Sandy Nathan
    “Do you have any advice for your readers?

    Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else’s.”
    ― sandy nathan
    tags: inspiration, new-age, self-help, spirituality
    87 likes

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  • #8
    “You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created.”
    ― Lynn Grabhorn, Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings
    tags: excuse, law-of-attraction, life, loa, self-help
    118 likes

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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infamous
    tags: pessimism, respect, sad, scars, sorrow
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    Catherine Fisher
    “I have walked a stair of swords,
    I have worn a coat of scars.
    I have vowed with hollow words,
    I have lied my way to the stars
    -Songs of Sapphique”
    ― Catherine Fisher, Incarceron
    tags: journey, lies, scars, stars
    299 likes

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  • #11
    Rasmenia Massoud
    “Maybe I should find another doctor; one who realizes the importance of scars.”
    ― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus
    tags: doctor, healing, scars
    39 likes

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  • #12
    C.G. Jung
    “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
    ― Carl Jung
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  • #13
    John Steinbeck
    “Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: corruption, fear, life, power
    663 likes

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  • #14
    Seneca
    “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: common-people, corruption, organized-religion, useful
    1153 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”
    ― kurt vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: corruption, music, nonfiction, politics
    423 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: big-business, business-regulation, corruption, education
    366 likes

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    Jarod Kintz
    “Politically, Republicans and Democrats are at opposite ends. One’s a burp and the other’s a fart.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger
    72 likes

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  • #18
    “If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?”
    ― George Deacon
    tags: corruption, god, humor, power, religion
    176 likes

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    Adolf Hitler
    “The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
    ― Adolf Hitler
    tags: attributed-no-source, corruption, gun-control, nazis, second-amendment
    163 likes

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  • #20
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: death, legacy, life, muad-dib, philosophy, truth, wisdom
    898 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
    ― Shannon Alder
    tags: achievements, charity, commencement-speech, death, death-and-dying, dying, epitaph, eulogy, funerals, goals, gravestone, hearts, kindness, legacy, life, life-lessons, life-missions, life-purpose, purpose, speeches, stories, story, tombstones, tribute
    784 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: honesty, legacy
    271 likes

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  • #23
    David Brower
    “We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
    ― David Brower
    tags: earth, environmentalism, legacy
    119 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Taylor Caldwell
    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
    ― Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron
    tags: misattributed
    571 likes

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    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
    11837 likes

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  • #27
    Maya Angelou
    “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: loneliness, music, refuge
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  • #28
    “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: compassion, empathy, loneliness, love
    5296 likes



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