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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
    4204 likes

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    David Foster Wallace
    “Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
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    Charles Bukowski
    “She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: fire, love, magic, women
    986 likes

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    Jack Gilbert
    “I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
    ― Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires
    tags: language, poetry, words
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  • #6
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    “People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead.”
    ― Genesis Quihuis
    tags: believe, magician, nonbelievers, people, portals, words, worlds, writer, writing
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
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    C.G. Jung
    “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: psychiatry, sanity
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
    ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Двести лет вместе
    tags: limits-of-power, nothing-left-to-lose, tyranny
    512 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent
    3425 likes

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    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought
    2892 likes

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    Zadie Smith
    “The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
    ― Zadie Smith
    tags: future, grammar, language, past
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    Stephen Fry
    “It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
    ― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
    tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety
    1956 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
    4559 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
    8988 likes

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    Marcel Proust
    “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
    ― Marcel Proust
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    Marcel Proust
    “Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
    ― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive
    tags: beauty, imagination, proust, women
    809 likes

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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
    10934 likes

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    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: books, reading
    4400 likes

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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
    3103 likes

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    George Orwell
    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty
    2246 likes

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  • #23
    George Orwell
    “If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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  • #24
    Plutarch
    “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
    ― Plutarch
    tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking
    2320 likes

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    William Arthur Ward
    “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: curiosity, leadership, mentoring, teachers, teaching
    1668 likes

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  • #26
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, reading, truth
    7618 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
    7528 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: autotune, bandwagon, compassion, culture, fads, flattery, gossip, knowledge, love, music, news, peace, pity, pop, pop-culture, pop-music, popular, popular-culture, popular-music, propaganda, singing, tension, trends
    382 likes

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    Noam Chomsky
    “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
    tags: democracy, mass-media, propaganda, repression, totalitarianism
    340 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children
    tags: debate, politics, prejudices, propaganda, rhetoric
    281 likes



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