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#1

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
― George Carlin

tags: funny, humanity, humor

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#2

“You are who you are when nobody's watching.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: people, self

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#3

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
― Joseph Stalin

tags: death, humanity, life, media, statistics, tragedy

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#4

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

tags: books, peace, people, reading, world

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#5

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
― Marie Curie

tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence

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#6

“The funniest people are the saddest ones”
― Confucius

tags: funny, people, sad

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#7

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

tags: fear, freedom, responsibility

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#8

“A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.”
― Charlie Chaplin

tags: character, drunk, humor, people, truth

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#9

“This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: compassion, people, social-anxiety

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#10

“...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: leaving, people

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#11

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
― Margaret Thatcher

tags: entitlement, government

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#12

“People are more than just the way they look.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: beauty, people

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#13

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
― H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy

tags: belief, democracy, government, humor, ignorance, intelligence, pathetic, political-commentary, politics, public-office

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#14

“People are secretive when they have secrets.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

tags: deception, people, secretive, secrets

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#15

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#16

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: love, madness

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#17

“No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.”
― Rush Limbaugh

tags: economy, government, prosperity, taxes, taxing

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#18

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

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#19

“Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: government, laws

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#20

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#21

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: assistance, compassion, development-aid, duty, freedom, liberty, moral-obligation, poor, rich, social-security, society, third-world, wealth

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#22

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#23

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: life, perspective, social-norms, society

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#24

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Neitzsche

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#25

“Every society has the criminals it deserves.”
― Emma Goldman, Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings & Speeches

tags: anarchism, criminal, emma-goldman, politics, society

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#26

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: education, government, political-philosophy, public-duty, voting

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#27

“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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#28

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

tags: commonwealth, corruption, government, law

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#29

“Become who you are!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

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#30

“Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: scope-of-government

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