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    Omar El Akkad
    “One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”
    ― Omar El Akkad
    tags: beliefs, convictions, courage, gaza, palestine, palestinians, speaking-up, war
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    George Orwell
    “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1948, big-lie, control, propaganda, slogan
    249 likes

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    Martin Niemöller
    “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out,
    Because I was not a Socialist.

    Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out,
    Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out,
    Because I was not a Jew.

    Then they came for me,
    and there was no one left to speak for me.”
    ― Martin Niemöller
    185 likes

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    Charles Addams
    “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
    ― Charles Addams
    tags: humor, life, morticia-addams
    667 likes

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    Sanai
    “This too shall pass.”
    ― Hakim Sanai
    tags: endurance, proverbs
    996 likes

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    “If there is a God, he will have to beg my forgiveness.”
    ― Jewish concentration camp Prisoner
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148855 likes

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    “It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.”
    ― Charles Bayard Mitchell
    tags: assessing-character, character, equality, equality-and-attitude, respect, respecting-others
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    Anthony Bourdain
    “Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”
    ― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
    tags: food
    150 likes

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    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
    3553 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
    6862 likes

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    Susan B. Anthony
    “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
    ― Susan B. Anthony
    tags: spirituality
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    Susan Sontag
    “10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: cruelty, humanity, mankind, mercy
    290 likes



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