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#1

“Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”
― Rudyard Kipling

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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

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#3

“When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was. ”
― Rudyard Kipling

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“The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.”
― Booker T. Washington

tags: education, great-people, leaders

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#5

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity”
― Booker T. Washington

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#6

“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.”
― Booker T. Washington

tags: inspirational

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#7

“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

tags: charity, compassion, happiness, helping-others, service

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#8

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
― Booker T. Washington

tags: hate, hatred

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#9

“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: mentoring, teacher

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#10

“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: freedom, liberty, politics

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#11

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

tags: government, government-corruption, independance, liberty

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#12

“I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.”
― H.L. Mencken

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#13

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: age, humor, old, wisdom

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#14

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#15

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#16

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, life

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#17

“If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook

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#18

“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
― Mark Twain

tags: animals, learn, like, people

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#19

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

tags: choice, consequence, individuality, inspirational

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#20

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
― W.C. Fields

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#21

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: activism, determination, enterprise, success

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#22

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

tags: daring, risk, success

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#23

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: common-sense, enterprise, hard-work, inspirational, perseverance, persistence, success, thomas-edison

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#24

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
― Mark Twain

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#25

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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#26

“If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed

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#27

“Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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#28

“There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The state, then, is the very institution that puts socialism into action; and as socialism rests on aggressive violence directed against innocent victims, aggressive violence is the nature of any state.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics

tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, free-markets, free-trade, freedom, government, individualism, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, nap, non-aggression-principle, politics, self-ownership, statism, voluntaryism, voluntaryist

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#29

“Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a solution to the problem of possible conflict, because it is precisely the institution of a state which first makes conflict unavoidable and permanent.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, democracy, evil, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression-principle, politics, statism, taxation, theft, thugs, violence, voluntaryism

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#30

“Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line with the laws of logical reasoning are no refutation of these but the sign of a muddled mind (or would one accept someone’s observational report that he had seen a bird that was red and non-red all over at the same time as a refutation of the law of contradiction rather than the pronouncement of an idiot?).”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, critical-thinking, economics, ethics, evidence, freedom, intelligence, knowledge, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, logic, philosophy, rational, rationality, reason, thinking, voluntaryism, voluntaryist

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