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#1

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

#2

“Cuando un político encuentra más fácil decir excusas que hacer su trabajo, debe ser removido del cargo. No sirve a la patria, sino a su desmesurada ambición”
― Agustín de Iturbide

tags: history, mexico

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#3

“Nothing could be more just and equitable,” than for “the unhappy Jewish nation” to find a refuge elsewhere. But, he concluded with a heartfelt plea, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.”
― Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

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#4

“Heaven was invented to make the poor endure hell on earth”
― Anonymous

tags: history, politics, religion

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#5

“God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#6

“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: world-war-i, world-war-one

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#7

“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: war

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#8

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

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#9

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#10

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

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#11

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#12

“Pobre México, tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de Estados Unidos”
― Porfirio Díaz

tags: history, mexico, politics

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#13

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: inequality, kindness, money, poverty, progress, wealth

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#14

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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#15

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Socrates

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#16

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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#17

“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
― René Descartes

tags: latin, life-and-living, mottos, thinking

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#18

“Without training, they lacked knowledge.
Without knowledge, they lacked confidence.
Without confidence, they lacked victory.”
― Julius Caesar

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#19

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
― President John F. Kennedy

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#20

“Poland is not yet lost”
― Józef Wybicki

tags: hope, independence, perseverance

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#21

“True philosophers make of dying their profession”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, sacrifice, wisdom

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#22

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

tags: class, racism, society

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#23

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#24

“Weak men, when powerless, will call for justice and freedom; but once power rests in their hands, those words grow quiet.”
― Unknown

tags: justice, power, rulers

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#25

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.”
― Gustavo Petro

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#26

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci

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#27

“The biggest delusion of the oligarch is the thought that the authority wealth offers will outlive the society that gave it to them.”
― Unknown

tags: ethics-and-moral-philosophy, history, money

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#28

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

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#29

“We were born to inherit the stars”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: humanity, space, yearning

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#30

“In order for me to write poetry that isn't political,
I must listen to the birds,
and in order to hear the birds,
the war planes must be silent.”
― Marwan Makhoul

tags: palestine

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