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    George Orwell
    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: politics-language
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    George Orwell
    “Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.”
    ― George Orwell
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    George Orwell
    “It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.”
    ― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
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    Jacquelyn Mitchard
    “When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.”
    ― Jacquelyn Mitchard
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    Albert Einstein
    “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

    (Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: disagreement, dissent, equanimity, expressing, knowledge, opinions, prejudices, social, society, thought
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    William Blake
    “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    tags: opinions, thought
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    Roberto Bolaño
    “If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
    ― Roberto Bolaño, The Insufferable Gaucho
    tags: expectations, feedback, opinions, outspokenness, responses
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
    tags: critical-thinking, extremism, opinion, opinions, passion, rationalism, skeptic, skeptical, skepticism, superficiality
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    Jim Morrison
    “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
    ― Jim Morrison
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Without fear there cannot be courage.”
    ― Christopher Paolini
    tags: bravery, courage, fear, inspirational
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
    tags: anger, fear, hate
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    Veronica Roth
    “Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: divergent, fear
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    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Lexicon
    tags: fear, life-lessons
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    Paulo Coelho
    “And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: courage
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: fear, love, opportunity
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    Isabel Allende
    “Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.”
    ― Isabel Allende, The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.”
    ― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
    tags: anger, giving, truth
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: anger, compassion, grudge, inspirational, life, motivational, people, resentment
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    Thomas Paine
    “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
    ― Thomas Paine
    tags: anger, anger-management
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    Epictetus
    “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: history, humility, philosophy
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    Rick Warren
    “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
    ― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
    tags: humility
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cult, danger, law, organized-religion, power, religion, sect, separation-of-church-and-state
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse , The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
    tags: disappointment, humor, moroseness, russia, satire, sorrow, tolstoy
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    Nicole Krauss
    “We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: disappointment, relationships, young-love
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    Ellen Hopkins
    “Disappointment

    Can do a couple things.
    It can drop you into a giant
    sucking sinkhole of

    depression,

    a place you have to fight
    to climb out of. Or it
    can trigger an epic

    mania

    to overcome the odds
    and transform failure
    into success. Say you

    swing

    as high as the chains will
    take you because you seek
    the thrill of flight, and on the

    up-

    kick, you lose your seat.
    Injury is likely. But if you
    worry about falling

    down,

    and never chance "up,"
    the sky will remain
    forever out of reach.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins
    tags: disappointment
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  • #28
    “to live in this world

    you must be able
    to do three things
    to love what is mortal;
    to hold it

    against your bones knowing
    your own life depends on it;
    and, when the time comes to let it go,
    to let it go”
    ― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One
    tags: excerpt-from-in-blackwater-woods, poem, poetry
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  • #29
    “When it's over, I want to say: all my life
    I was a bride married to amazement.
    I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

    When it is over, I don't want to wonder
    if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
    I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
    or full of argument.

    I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: life
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    Jack Kerouac
    “I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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