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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “CLAIRVOYANT, n. A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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    George MacDonald
    “It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.”
    ― George MacDonald
    tags: politics
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    Anatole France
    “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: law, poverty, wealth
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    Robertson Davies
    “Be sure you choose what you believe and know why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.”
    ― Robertson Davies, The Manticore
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “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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    Charles Bukowski
    “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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  • #8
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, The Quintessence of Ibsenism
    tags: believe, liar, lie, punishment
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    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas-fils
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Will Rogers
    “I am not a member of any organized political party — I am a Democrat. ”
    ― Will Rogers
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action”
    ― Goethe
    tags: dystopia, trumpism
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    C.G. Jung
    “An evil person lurks inside all of us, and only
    if we recognize that fact can we hope to
    tame them [sic].”
    ― Carl Jung
    tags: evil, knowledge-of-self
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Roving Mind
    tags: belief, bible, bitter, childish, childish-beliefs, guide, guides, home, ignorance, ignore, imagine, invade, leader, leaders, library, resentment, school, science, shame, the-bible, thought, uneducated, unimaginative, unthinking, writing
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “...faith draws its fanatical power from the fact that it is not knowledge: it is blind, passionate, stubborn, and stupid; what it puts forward is done unconditionally, against reason, against history, against all refutation.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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    Aristophanes
    “A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he must be ignorant and a rogue.”
    ― Aristophanes
    tags: demagogue, educated, honest, ignorant, politics, rogue
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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    Joseph Stalin
    “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
    ― Joseph Stalin
    tags: vote
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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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    W.C. Fields
    “Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    Tim Weiner
    “From 1966 to 1976 ... The primary cause in [the] decline in FBI counterespionage and counterintelligence cases was the ceaseless demand by Presidents Johnson and Nixon to focus on the political warfare against the American left.... - "Espionage Against the United States by American Citizens, 1947-2001, Defense Personnel Security Research Center, July 2002”
    ― Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI
    tags: civil-rights, espionage, fbi, government, lbj, nixon
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    Aristotle
    “The end of labor is to gain leisure.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: leisure, work
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    Will Rogers
    “If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: stupidity
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    Guy Kawasaki
    “Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: “Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.” —Halford E. Luccock”
    ― Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
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    “We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor. We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it what we will. We have borrowed it from our children and we must be careful to use it in their interests as well as our own. Anyone who fails to recognise the basic validity of the proposition put in different ways by increasing numbers of writers, from Malthus to The Club of Rome, is either ignorant, a fool, or evil.”
    ― Moss Cass
    tags: conservation, earth, environmentalism, inspirational, science
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    C.G. Jung
    “Crimes the individual alone could never stand are freely committed by the group.”
    ― Carl Jung
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
    tags: civil-rights, geometry, opinions, physics, science
    606 likes

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    Richard P. Feynman
    “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science
    1001 likes



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