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    Malcolm X
    “Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: islam, militancy
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    Thomas Carlyle
    “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ”
    ― Thomas Carlyle
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    Thomas Carlyle
    “Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
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    Hendrik Willem van Loon
    “High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed.”
    ― Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Story of Mankind
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    Albert Camus
    “In short, for me to live happily it was essential for the creatures I chose not to live at all. They must receive their life, sporadically, only at my bidding.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I didn't care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn't know me and I didn't know anybody. I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: conversation, depression
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    Thomas Carlyle
    “The tragedy of life is not so much what
    men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle
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    Albert Camus
    “The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
    tags: cruelty, oppression
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    Thomas Carlyle
    “Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle
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    Thomas Carlyle
    “The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle
    tags: atheist, carlyle, change, christian, comparison, direction, earth, faith, heart, hindu, humanity, jewish, lessons, life, mankind, message, muhammad-pbuh, nature, planet, prophet, religion, science, struggle, thomas, universal, universe, voice, wind, words
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    Thomas Carlyle
    “Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance
    tags: happiness
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    Noam Chomsky
    “It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: america, independence, islam, united-states, us
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: ashamed, love, unhappy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    George Washington Carver
    “Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.”
    ― George Washington Carver
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1841-1844
    tags: life, risk-taking, timidity
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “You become what you think about all day long.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational, obsession
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    Jesse Stuart
    “Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.”
    ― Jesse Stuart
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    Raymond Carver
    “Don’t complain, don’t explain.”
    ― Raymond Carver
    tags: life-lessons
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    Raymond Carver
    “I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.”
    ― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
    tags: gazebo, suicide
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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Maya Angelou
    “There were people who went to sleep last night,
    poor and rich and white and black,
    but they will never wake again.

    And those dead folks would give anything at all
    for just five minutes of this weather
    or ten minutes of plowing.

    So you watch yourself about complaining.

    What you're supposed to do
    when you don't like a thing is change it.
    If you can't change it,
    change the way you think about it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: change, life-lessons, transformation
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk
    tags: life-lessons
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
    tags: hell, insight, life, life-lessons, living, motivation, thought-provoking
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    Mitch Albom
    “If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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    Iimani David
    “To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good".”
    ― Iimani David
    tags: inspirational, life-lessons
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: happiness, life-lessons, self-control
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    Bohdi Sanders
    “Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.”
    ― Bohdi Sanders, Warrior Wisdom: Ageless Wisdom for the Modern Warrior
    tags: anger, anger-management, ataraxy, bushido, inner-peace, inspirational, life, life-experience, life-lessons, martial-arts, motivational, self-control, serenity, warrior-ethos, warriors, warriorship, wisdom
    804 likes



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