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    Henry David Thoreau
    “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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    Bill Gates
    “So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.”
    ― Bill Gates
    tags: interview, vaccines
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “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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    Donald J. Trump
    “good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.”
    ― Donald J. Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal
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    Naomi Klein
    “It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet.”
    ― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: philosophy
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    Donald J. Trump
    “I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.”
    ― Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal
    tags: asia, china, chinese, donald-trump, trump
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: principle, style
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    “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
    ― Walter Langer
    tags: lies, paraphrased
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    Edward Abbey
    “I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.”
    ― Edward Abbey
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    Edward Abbey
    “A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.”
    ― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
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    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!”
    ― Mehmet Murat ildan
    tags: herd, herd-of-animals, ignorant, ignorant-masses, ignorant-people, murat-ildan-quotations, society, society-quotes, turkish-writers, turkish-writers-quotes, uneducated, uneducated-mind
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    James Hauenstein
    “Who is watching the Watchers?”
    ― James Hauenstein
    tags: aliens, authoritarianism, authorities, authority, big-brother, big-brother-is-watching, watcher, watchers
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems
    tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring
    2367 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All things truly wicked start from innocence.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: ignorance, innocence, wickedness
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    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.”
    ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Un conto ancora aperto
    tags: american-history, black-history, jim-crow, jim-crow-laws, kleptocracy, mississippi, mississippi-history, segregation, us-history
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.”
    ― Theodor Adorno
    tags: authoritarianism
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
    ― James Waterman Wise
    tags: fascism, misattributed-sinclair-lewis
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    Stuart Aken
    “Evil people rely on the acquiescence of naive good people to allow them to continue with their evil.”
    ― Stuart Aken
    tags: evil, good, naive
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    Sinclair Lewis
    “Why, America’s the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country’s too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn’t happen here!”
    ― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
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    Mark Twain
    “When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain
    tags: brainwashing, doubt, evidence, indoctrination, mind, reason, religion, superstition, theism
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: americanism, duty, nationalism
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    Ron Kovic
    “No one will ever again by my enemy, no matter how hard they try to frighten and intimidate me. No government will ever teach me to hate another human being.”
    ― Ron Kovic
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    Ron Kovic
    “rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded,”
    ― Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July
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    Ron Kovic
    “I want a woman, Dad. I want somebody to love me. I wanna to be free again. I wanna walk in the backyard on the grass. I wanna put my bare feet in the ocean. I wanna run along the sand and feel it on my feet. I wanna stand up in the shower with the hot water streaming down my legs, in the morning...I wanna explode, Dad. I wanna get out of this fucking body I'm in. I wanna be a man again...I just wanna be a man again.”
    ― Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: patriotism, war
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    Joseph Goebbels
    “Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place...”
    ― Joseph Goebbels
    tags: faith, knowledge
    90 likes



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