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#1

“Trivia is mainstream. 'Nerd' is the new 'cool.”
― Ken Jennings

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“What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities.”
― Fahmida Riaz

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“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#4

“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.”
― Osho, The Book of Secrets

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#5

“Everyone shines, given the right lighting.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

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“Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

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#8

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#9

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

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#10

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

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#11

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

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#12

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

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#13

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

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#15

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: secrets

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#16

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines

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#17

“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

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#18

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: future

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#19

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

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#20

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#21

“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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#22

“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

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#23

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#24

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

tags: writing

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“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

tags: humanity, truth, wisdom

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#27

“Life's like a penis; When it's soft you can't beat it; When it's hard you get screwed. - The Fat Man, Medical Resident in The House of God”
― Samuel Shem, The House of God

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#28

“To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

tags: interconnectedness, life

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#29

“...I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

tags: franny, franny-and-zooey, glass, glass-family, jd-salinger, zoeey

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“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: man, men, woman, women

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