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    “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
    ― Anonymous
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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    Socrates
    “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: gossip
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    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship
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    Socrates
    “If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: change, self-determination, self-development
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    Socrates
    “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

    [As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]”
    ― Socrates
    tags: cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanism, world-citizenship
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  • #10
    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: disobedience, freedom, liberty, obedience, protest, slave, slavery, slaves
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: forgetfulness, forgetting, happiness, memory
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
    tags: life, self-actualization, unrealized-potential
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

    They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

    Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Great power involves great responsibility”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: noblesse-oblige
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  • #17
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: existentialism, student, teacher
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: nietzsche, pollution, purity
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    John Ruskin
    “I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.”
    ― John Ruskin
    tags: greatness, humility
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    John Ruskin
    “Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.”
    ― John Ruskin
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    John Ruskin
    “A book worth reading is worth owning.”
    ― John Ruskin
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    John Ruskin
    “Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.”
    ― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations
    tags: beauty, inspirational
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    John Ruskin
    “The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.”
    ― John Ruskin, Modern Painters: Volume 3. Of Many Things
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    John Ruskin
    “Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.”
    ― John Ruskin, The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 16: A Joy Forever and The Two Paths
    tags: literature
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    Aleister Crowley
    “Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.”
    ― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend
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    Aleister Crowley
    “I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.”
    ― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend
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    Aleister Crowley
    “I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.”
    ― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend
    tags: abyss, magic, magick, metaphysics, occult, philosophy
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  • #28
    David Bowie
    “Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...”
    ― David Bowie
    tags: life-philosophy
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  • #29
    Pythagoras
    “Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
    ― Pythagoras
    tags: silence, words
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  • #30
    Pythagoras
    “No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.”
    ― Pythagoras
    tags: individuation, know-thyself
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