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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Miyamoto Musashi
    “Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    George Orwell
    “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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    Terry Pratchett
    “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: einstein, gaiman, god, humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: atheism, religion, skeptic
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    Philip Pullman
    “Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.”
    ― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
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    Richard Dawkins
    “Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
    tags: children, critical-thinking, indoctrination
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    Plato
    “I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
    ― Plato, Apology
    tags: apology, knowledge, plato, socrates, wisdom
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    Neil Gaiman
    “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: books, bookstore, towns
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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    George Orwell
    “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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    Max Brooks
    “Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.”
    ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Beg for mercy,” said the Elephant.
    That one was easy. “Mercy!” said the Marquis. “I beg! I plead! Show me mercy—the finest of all gifts. It befits you, mighty Elephant, as lord of your own demesne, to be merciful to one who is not even fit to wipe the dust from your excellent toes …”
    “Did you know,” said the Elephant, “that everything you say sounds sarcastic?”
    ― Neil Gaiman, How the Marquis Got His Coat Back
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    Robert Harris
    “A police state is a country run by criminals”
    ― Robert Harris, Fatherland
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: capital-punishment, death-penalty, gandalf, j-r-r-tolkien, lord-of-the-rings
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lotr, war
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: gandalf, grief
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    Harper Lee
    “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: bible, god, hatred, judgement, religion
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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
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    Aldous Huxley
    “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting
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    Aldous Huxley
    “All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
    "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind."
    There was a long silence.
    "I claim them all," said the Savage at last.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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