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    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome
    1467 likes

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    Nalini Singh
    “Only ignorance excuses stupidity”
    ― Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood
    tags: growing, ignorance, knowing, smarts, wisdom
    118 likes

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    S.E. Hinton
    “I´d rather have anybody´s hate than their pity”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: hate, pity
    100 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: autotune, bandwagon, compassion, culture, fads, flattery, gossip, knowledge, love, music, news, peace, pity, pop, pop-culture, pop-music, popular, popular-culture, popular-music, propaganda, singing, tension, trends
    382 likes

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    “While pity shows a lack of respect for other human beings, compassion has its roots in a deep respect for others. Pity is an emotion; compassion is a connection. Compassion sees the other as equal. Compassion happens when we care for another person enough to make his or her problems our own.”
    ― Matt Litton, The Mockingbird Parables: Transforming Lives through the Power of Story
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    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
    ― Ernest Benn
    tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems
    2005 likes

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  • #7
    John Steinbeck
    “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: conflict, politics, war
    2070 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: capitalism, churchill, conservatism, freedom, morality, politics, pride, scotland, socialism, virtue
    147 likes

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    Alberto Manguel
    “One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. ”
    ― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
    tags: book, books, culture
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    Peter Kreeft
    “Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.”
    ― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
    tags: catholicism, christianity, culture, culture-critique, heroes, jesus-shock, philosophy, spirituality, theology
    128 likes

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  • #11
    Carlos Fuentes
    “Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.”
    ― Carlos Fuentes, Myself with Others: Selected Essays
    tags: culture
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    Richard Paul Evans
    “What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.”
    ― Richard Paul Evans, A Step of Faith
    tags: culture, ignorance, information
    47 likes

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    Dennis Prager
    “The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.”
    ― Dennis Prager
    tags: culture, politics
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    Jeremy Aldana
    “If my eyes have pain, I close them; If my body aches, I rest it; If my heart breaks, I mend it; If my soul is lost, I pray for it”
    ― Jeremy Aldana
    122 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need
    2316 likes

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    Edward Abbey
    “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
    ― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
    tags: capitalism, greed, growth
    750 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
    18016 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: inspiration
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  • #20
    Vincent van Gogh
    “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting
    4508 likes

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  • #21
    Trisha Yearwood
    “What's meant to be will always find a way”
    ― Trisha Yearwood
    tags: fate, inspiration, love
    8037 likes

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  • #22
    Walt Disney Company
    “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
    ― Walt Disney Company, Mulan
    tags: inspiration, life
    7883 likes

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  • #23
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Love is the absence of judgment.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: inspiration
    3396 likes

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    Margaret Thatcher
    “In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: gender-roles, gender-stereotypes, men, women
    3782 likes

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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”
    ― Robert G. Ingersoll
    tags: danger, genius, intelligence, mediocrity, republic
    127 likes

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    Slavoj Žižek
    “Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.”
    ― Slavoj Žižek
    337 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “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
    389 likes

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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
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  • #29
    Louisa May Alcott
    “…the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, wishful-thinking
    6 likes

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    Erik Pevernagie
    “Wishful thinking and voluntary daydreaming can occasionally make dreams come true. Unrealistic projects, improbable ventures and unfeasible missions can sometimes be achieved through 'conscious dreaming'. At times, dreams can be an inspiration and generate creative reflections.

    (<"Lost dreams")”
    ― Erik Pevernagie
    tags: conscious, daydreaming, dreams, inspiration, reflections, wishful-thinking
    117 likes



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