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    Kahlil Gibran
    “I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
    tags: wisdom
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    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy
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    Plato
    “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
    tags: music, philosophy, revelation, wisdom
    2575 likes

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    Homer
    “How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
    ― Homer
    tags: wisdom
    287 likes

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  • #7
    George Harrison
    “All things must pass.”
    ― George Harrison
    tags: all-things-must-pass, george-harrison, life
    91 likes

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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44320 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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  • #10
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: freedom, government, politics
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    Albert Einstein
    “Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: freedom, tolerance
    499 likes

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  • #12
    Zane Grey
    “I need this wild life, this freedom.”
    ― Zane Grey
    tags: freedom
    144 likes

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  • #13
    Malcolm X
    “You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    993 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    615 likes

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    Golda Meir
    “Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”
    ― Golda Meir
    tags: funny, golda, meir, true
    3531 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
    37577 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
    37054 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
    24696 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: love
    24158 likes

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    Malcolm X
    “Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: armed-struggle, arms, pacifism, peace, revolution, violence, war
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    Malcolm X
    “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
    ― Malcom X, Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power
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    José Martí
    “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
    ― Jose Marti
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    1777 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World
    tags: communism, democracy, dishonesty, funny, humour, politicians, politics, revolution, socialism
    840 likes

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    Adam Smith
    “Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
    ― Adam Smith
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    407 likes

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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, marxism, radicalism, rebellion, revolution, socialism
    286 likes

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  • #28
    Malcolm X
    “Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: truth
    569 likes

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    Robert Walser
    “That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.”
    ― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten
    tags: senselessness, truth
    170 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: diplomacy, hurt, preparedness, presidential
    706 likes

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  • #31
    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
    12389 likes



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