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    “Nothing hurts more than the sense that the people we care about aren’t really listening. We never outgrow the need to have our feelings known.”
    ― Michael P. Nichols, The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: comprehension, dark-age, dissociated, dissociation, human-mind, science
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    George Orwell
    “The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky
    “The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.”
    ― Lev S. Vygotsky
    tags: teacher, teaching
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    George Eliot
    “Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
    ― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
    tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence
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    Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky
    “A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.”
    ― Lev S. Vygotsky, Thought and Language
    tags: cognition, language, psychology, thought, word
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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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  • #8
    Aldous Huxley
    “Liberties aren't given, they are taken.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: freedom
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    George Orwell
    “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: courage, truth
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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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
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    George Orwell
    “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: conscious, rebel
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    George Orwell
    “The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984
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    George Orwell
    “A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Things do not change; we change.”
    ― henry david thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: common-sense, inspirational, philosophy
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    Mark Twain
    “All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    tags: hell, resignation
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    Mark Twain
    “I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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    Mark Twain
    “You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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  • #19
    William Wordsworth
    “Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
    Than when we soar.”
    ― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814
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    Confucius
    “Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
    ― Confucius, The Sayings of Confucius
    tags: education, learning, pedagogy, reflection, thinking, thought
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises...”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “And the story itself is more frightful than the outcome.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “As for the women, they know very well that the noblest and most poetic love, as we call it, depends, not on moral qualities, but on the physical intimacy, and also on the manner of doing the hair, and the color and shape.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Women, especially those who have passed through the school of marriage, know very well that conversations upon elevated subjects are only conversations, and that man seeks and desires the body and all that ornaments the body.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, peace
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: compatibility
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: love, obsession, sleep
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
    tags: martyr, martyrdom, truth, tyrant
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
    tags: philosophy
    559 likes



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