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    Groucho Marx
    “Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humor
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: america, history, immigration, politics, revolution, united-states, usa
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: ecology, environment, trees
    384 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Short cuts make long delays.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: humour, life-lesson, pippin, proverbs, shortcuts
    1418 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: action, inaction, perseverance, progress
    198 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: conservatives
    116 likes

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  • #7
    Groucho Marx
    “If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    1079 likes

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  • #8
    Victor Hugo
    “Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
    ― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables
    tags: inspirational
    2270 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “People do not lack strength, they lack will.”
    ― Victor Hugo
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    Victor Hugo
    “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: education
    880 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
    tags: genius, humour, oscar-wilde
    901 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: humanity, misery, poverty
    619 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: honesty, silence, truth
    393 likes

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  • #14
    Victor Hugo
    “There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    292 likes

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  • #15
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
    15491 likes

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    Groucho Marx
    “I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”
    ― Groucho Marx
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
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    Socrates
    “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
    ― Socrates
    1155 likes

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    Socrates
    “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: contentment, happiness
    170 likes

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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash 1929
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    Andrew Vachss
    “Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.”
    ― Andrew Vachss, A Bomb Built in Hell
    tags: crime, greed
    84 likes

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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
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    Horatius
    “he who is greedy is always in want”
    ― Horace
    tags: contentment, greed, satisfaction, wisdom
    66 likes

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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
    tags: economics, intelligence, wealth
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith, A Life in Our Times: Memoirs
    tags: frequently-misquoted
    68 likes

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    Woody Allen
    “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
    ― Woody Allen
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
    tags: forecasting
    49 likes

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    Greg Hamerton
    “Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”
    —Zarost”
    ― Greg Hamerton, The Riddler's Gift
    tags: fantasy-books, fantasy-fiction, greed, power, wisdom
    29 likes

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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
    42318 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
    4626 likes



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