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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
    tags: bounds, enslavement, error, false-belief, freedom, freedom-of-thought, imprisonment
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    Albert Einstein
    “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
    ― Stephen Covey
    tags: history, imagination, stephen-covey, the-past
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    “There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.”
    ― Dan Greenberg
    tags: cats, dan-greenberg, insanity, sanity
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: reason, time
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: cage, insanity
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    Howard Zinn
    “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: activism, civil-disobedience, democracy, dissent, law, protest, truth-telling
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    Hendrik Willem van Loon
    “Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.”
    ― Hendrick Willem Van Loon
    tags: education, hendrick-van-loon, ignorance, society, willful-ignorance
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Eric Hoffer
    “Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
    tags: faith-power
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    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: boys, hate, love
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    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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    Markus Zusak
    “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: pain, sadness, stoicism
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    Mark Twain
    “A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”
    ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
    tags: cats, lesson
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    Mark Twain
    “If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, grace, reticence
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  • #16
    The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
    “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: cats
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    Lilian Jackson Braun
    “Dogs have their day but cats have 365.”
    ― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who... Omnibus 02 (Books 4-6): The Cat Who Saw Red / The Cat Who Played Brahms / The Cat Who Played Post Office
    tags: cats, dogs, funny
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    Jean Cocteau
    “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
    ― Jean Cocteau
    tags: cats, home
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    Paula Poundstone
    “The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.”
    ― Paula Poundstone
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    Lilian Jackson Braun
    “Cats are cats . . . the world over!
    These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.
    -James Mackintosh Qwilleran”
    ― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Saw Stars
    tags: cats
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    “Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.”
    ― Jean Burden, Celebration of Cats
    tags: cats
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    John Steinbeck
    “Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
    tags: cats
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    Robert Byrne
    “To err is human, to purr is feline.”
    ― Robert Byrne, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
    tags: cats, err, error, feline, human, humor, purr, purring, quotes, robert-byrne
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: cats
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
    tags: cats
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    Julio Cortázar
    “I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.”
    ― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
    tags: cats, reading
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    Connie Willis
    “Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”
    ― Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
    tags: cats
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water
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  • #29
    Scott Turow
    “It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.”
    ― Scott Turow, Limitations
    tags: crime
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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