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#1

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
― George W. Bush

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#2

“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. ”
― George W. Bush

tags: dumb, iraq, iraq-war, terrorism, war

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#3

“I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”
― Rumi

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#4

“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”
― Nietzsche

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#5

“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.”

- Popularized by Bob Marley in the song War”
― Haile Selassie I, Selected Speeches

tags: bob-marley, diversity, equality, peace, politics, race, racism, war

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#6

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

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#7

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#8

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: creation, god, humor, man

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#9

“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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#10

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: love

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#11

“There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”
― Morrissey

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#12

“It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind”
― Morrissey

tags: lyrics, smiths

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#13

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

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#14

“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!”
― Slavoj Zizek

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#15

“The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: desire, meaning-of-life, satisfaction

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#16

“The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: harassment, intolerance, liberalism, sexual-harassment, tolerance

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#17

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: love, philosophy

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#18

“It's not the same thing: coffee without cream or coffee without milk.
What you don't get is part of the identity of what you get.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: ideology

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#19

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#20

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#21

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#22

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#23

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#24

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, life

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#25

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

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#26

“Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.”
― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

tags: economics, economy, recession, social-justice, tax-cuts, taxation, taxes

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#27

“This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why don’t you turn him in? And the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. Well I guess that’s pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know they’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.”
― Woody Allen

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#28

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

tags: lord-of-the-rings, sam-gamgee

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#29

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates

tags: food, health, medicine

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#30

“People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.”
― Jason Read

tags: capitalism, class

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