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  • #1
    Toba Beta
    “Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.”
    ― Toba Beta
    tags: hypocrisy, lies, naive
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
    2604 likes

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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, flattery, gender, hypocrisy, independence, men, misogyny, rationality, reason, self-determination, self-sufficiency, social-norms, stereotypes, strength, women, women-s-rights
    1165 likes

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  • #4
    “Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”
    ― Warren Wiersbe
    tags: diplomacy, hypocrisy, love, tact, truth, truth-telling
    590 likes

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  • #5
    William F. Buckley Jr.
    “I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
    ― William F. Buckley Jr.
    tags: hypocrisy
    411 likes

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    Jarod Kintz
    “How can I clearly see what’s wrong with someone else, and then look at myself as though I’m standing in front of a fogged mirror?
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    ― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
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  • #7
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adversity, conflict, criticism, defaming, gossip, hatred, hypocrisy, hypocrisy-in-everyone, hypocrites, insecurity, jealous-women, jealousy, judgement, low-self-esteem, revenge, rumors, self-observation, slander, women
    764 likes

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  • #8
    Warren Ellis
    “He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Women with an actual mind of their own who could prove him wrong in something were, of course, castrating bitches who should be drowned in bottomless wells.”
    ― Warren Ellis, Crooked Little Vein
    tags: black-humour, hypocrisy, sexism, women
    84 likes

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  • #9
    José Emilio Pacheco
    “We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”
    ― José Emilio Pacheco, Battles in the Desert & Other Stories
    tags: hypocrisy, judgement
    962 likes

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  • #10
    Erwin Schrödinger
    “Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don't.”
    ― Erwin Schrödinger, A Life of Erwin Schrödinger
    tags: abominable, adherence, atheism, creed, ethics, hypocrisy, inferior, queer
    31 likes

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  • #11
    Marilyn Monroe
    “We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: beauty, femininity, sex
    2488 likes

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  • #12
    Woody Allen
    “The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”
    ― Woody Allen
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: sex
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  • #14
    Neil Gaiman
    “In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
    tags: love, sex
    2238 likes

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  • #15
    Sylvia Plath
    “I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    tags: doubt, faith, god, prayer
    2482 likes

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  • #16
    Nelson Mandela
    “I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”
    ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
    tags: faith, hope, optimism
    1758 likes

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  • #17
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: belief, delusions, faith, insanity
    1788 likes

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  • #18
    Gautama Buddha
    “Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
    ― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha
    tags: beliefs, doubt, faith
    1257 likes

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  • #19
    Mitch Albom
    “Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
    tags: action, belief, faith
    814 likes

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  • #20
    Robert Anton Wilson
    “belief is the death of intelligence.”
    ― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
    tags: atheism, belief, faith, intelligence, metaphysics, philosophy, religion
    987 likes

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  • #21
    Mother Teresa
    “The Simple Path
    Silence is Prayer
    Prayer is Faith
    Faith is Love
    Love is Service
    The Fruit of Service is Peace”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: faith, love, mother, path, peace, prayer, service, simple, teresa
    759 likes

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  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #23
    “The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.”
    ― Charlie Sheen
    tags: broken, heart, pretend
    572 likes

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  • #24
    Sara Teasdale
    “It is strange how often a heart must be broken
    Before the years can make it wise.”
    ― Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems
    tags: heart, heartbreak, poetry, wisdom
    698 likes

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  • #25
    Simone Elkeles
    “My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.
    My heart... not so much.”
    ― Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise
    tags: brain, heart, love
    235 likes

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  • #26
    Coco J. Ginger
    “You don’t deserve my image in your head. You don’t deserve my memories in your chest.”
    ― Jamie Weise
    tags: chest, deserve, hate-you, heart, love-hate, love-hate-relationship, love-story, memories, passion, passionate-living
    312 likes

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  • #27
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
    What the swift mind beholds at every turn.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems
    tags: heart, mind, poetry, reason
    206 likes

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  • #28
    Pearl S. Buck
    “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ”
    ― Pearl S. Buck
    366 likes

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  • #29
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: sleep
    9531 likes



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