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    Stephen Colbert
    “I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of.”
    ― Stephen Colbert
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    Stephen Colbert
    “Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.”
    ― Stephen Colbert, I Am America
    tags: humor, life
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    Stephen Colbert
    “I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.”
    ― Stephen Colbert
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    Stephen Colbert
    “It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.”
    ― Stephen Colbert
    tags: bias, liberalism
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    Stephen Colbert
    “Equations are the devil's sentences.”
    ― Stephen Colbert
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    Stephen Colbert
    “Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.”
    ― Stephen Colbert
    tags: life
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    “It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” he said. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.” Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal. New York Times, 10/16/2011”
    ― Russell Grandinetti
    tags: bookstore, e-books, libraries, publishing
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1832–1858
    tags: abraham-lincoln, religion
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    Peter Høeg
    “It's a phenomenon that I've often observed without understanding it. Inside someone another person can exist, a fully formed, generous, and trustworthy individual who never comes to light except in glimpses, because he is surrounded by a corrupt, dyed-in-the-wool, repeat offender.”
    ― Peter Hoeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
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    Peter Høeg
    “The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.”
    ― Peter Hoeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
    tags: pain
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    Barry M. Goldwater
    “Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.”
    ― Barry Goldwater
    tags: christianity, compromise, god, lobbying, politics, preachers, religion, republicans
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    Tom Stoppard
    “It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Jumpers
    tags: democracy, political-philosophy
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: democracy, elections, irony
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    Adam Smith
    “Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
    ― Adam Smith
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    407 likes

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    Ronald Reagan
    “Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: democracy, government, political-philosophy
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    Paul Krugman
    “I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.”
    ― Paul Krugman
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: democracy, equality, slavery
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    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
    “My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.”
    ― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: democracy, government, judicial-power, republicanism, separation-of-powers
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
    people.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy
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    Benazir Bhutto
    “Democracy is the best revenge.”
    ― Benazir Bhutto
    tags: democracy, freedom, liberty, politics
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    Isaac Asimov
    “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: apathy, democracy, elections, voting
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, Churchill Speaks: Collected Speeches in Peace and War, 1897-1963
    tags: democracy, government
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Secrecy begets tyranny.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: democracy, freedom, patriot-act
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    Norman Mailer
    “Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”
    ― Norman Mailer
    tags: activist, common, communism, democracy, philosophy, radical, revolution, sense, socialism
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: constitution, democracy, freedom, liberty
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    George Orwell
    “You think—I dare say that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it We’re destroying words—scores of them hundreds of them every day. It’s a beautiful thing the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms there are also the antonyms.”
    ― Orwell, George, 1984
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