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    C.S. Lewis
    “The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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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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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
    ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “Sometimes - history needs a push.”
    ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    tags: history
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “Three keys to success: read, read, read.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
    tags: bolshevism, lenin, marxism
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “Every society is three meals away from chaos”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
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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
    “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
    ― Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: force, police-brutality, power, resistance, solidarity, violence
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    Malcolm X
    “Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: 1965, anger
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    Malcolm X
    “Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: islam, militancy
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