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#1

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

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#2

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: dissent, freedom-of-speech, truth-telling

1117 likes

#3

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire

tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire

1770 likes

#4

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

130120 likes

#5

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: willful-ignorance

1426 likes

#6

“A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.”
― Benjamin Franklin

104 likes

#7

“To cease to think creatively is to cease to live”
― Benjamin Franklin

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#8

“Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.”
― Joan Jett

tags: joan-jett, joan-jett-and-the-blackhearts, the-runaways

84 likes

#9

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151328 likes

#10

“You got nothing to lose, you don't lose when you lose fake friends.”
― Joan Jett

tags: joan-jett, joan-jett-and-the-blackhearts

77 likes

#11

“Live Large!”
― Don Pendleton

tags: don-pendleton, mack-bolan, the-executioner-series

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#12

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly

tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing

812 likes

#13

“I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

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#14

“The desire to write grows with writing.”
― Erasmus

tags: writing

195 likes

#15

“Your library is your paradise.”
― Desiderius Erasmus

tags: library

349 likes

#16

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books

8711 likes

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