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#1

“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
― dave eggers

tags: life

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#2

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

tags: memory, nostalgia, vocabulary

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“To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

tags: death-note

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#4

“A man is responsible for his ignorance.”
― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

tags: ignorance, man, men, resonsibility, willful-ignorance

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#5

“The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.”
― Milan Kundera

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#6

“We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the “Es muss sein!” to our own great love.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: love

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#7

“The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#8

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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#9

“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: participate, responsibility, stop-terrorism, terror, terrorism

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#10

“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
― Howard Zinn

tags: blowback, propaganda, terrorism, war

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#11

“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. ”
― George W. Bush

tags: dumb, iraq, iraq-war, terrorism, war

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#12

“What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.”
― Terry Jones

tags: bush, bushism, grammar, politics, terrorism

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#13

“The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.”
― Chris Hedges

tags: afghanistan, blowback, iraq, palestinians, terrorism, violence

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#14

“There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.”
― Tony Benn

tags: peace, terrorism, uk, war

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#15

“Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'—blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.”
― Noam Chomsky, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

tags: 2009, consensus, democracy, dissent, gaza-war, hamas, iran, israel, israel-united-states-relations, israeli-palestinian-conflict, terrorism, united-states

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#16

“I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.”
― John Perkins

tags: terrorism

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#17

“Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying.”
― Anna Quindlen

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#18

“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.”
― John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

tags: economics, poverty

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#19

“The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are”
― John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

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#20

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

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#21

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence

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#22

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#23

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
― George Carlin

tags: fighting, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, peace, sex

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#24

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: force, peace

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#25

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: humanism, jimi-hendrix, love, mahatma-gandhi, peace, philosophy, power

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#26

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex

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#27

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: compassion, ethics, peace, vegetarianism

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#28

“There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: peace

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#29

“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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#30

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

tags: love

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