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#1

“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.”
― Charles Manson

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#2

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#3

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#4

“Look down at me and you see a fool,
Look up at me and you see a god,
Look straight at me and you see yourself.”
― Charles Manson

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#5

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence

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#6

“I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.”
― John Lennon

tags: violence

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#7

“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: causes, corporations, gandhi, truth, violence

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#8

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary."

(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919)”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: defeat, victory, violence

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#9

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth

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#10

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth

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#11

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

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#12

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#13

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: failure, intelligence, science, scientific-process, success, truth

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#14

“The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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#15

“What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

tags: love

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#16

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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#17

“That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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#18

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#19

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#20

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

tags: independence, self-reliance

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#21

“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”
― Socrates

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#22

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

tags: gossip

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#23

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
― Aristotle

tags: happiness

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#24

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship

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#25

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle

tags: fear, freedom

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#26

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
― Aristotle

tags: solitude

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#27

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder

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#28

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Socrates

tags: marriage

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#29

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship

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#30

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
― Socrates

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