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    Vasily Grossman
    “Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”
    ― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
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    Vasily Grossman
    “In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.”
    ― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
    tags: compassion, cruelty, good, life
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    Vasily Grossman
    “Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.”
    ― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
    tags: fascism, humanity, nazism
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    Vasily Grossman
    “There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.”
    ― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
    tags: evil, evil-people, hollocaust, nazis
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    Vasily Grossman
    “The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm the rich diversity of human nature to be found.”
    ― Vasily Grossman, An Armenian Sketchbook
    tags: freedom, human-nature, nationalism, stereotypes
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    Vasily Grossman
    “He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.”
    ― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
    tags: characterisation
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    Laini Taylor
    “A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
    tags: humor, mark-twain, mustaches
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    Mark Twain
    “Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.”
    ― Mark Twain, On Religion
    tags: mark-twain, religion
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    Joseph Perry Grassi
    “Private, everything is mind over matter, If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”
    ― Joseph Perry Grassi, The Little Guy (or The Motor Scooter): The story of a diminutive soldier in the rear with the gear
    tags: basic-training, determination, humor, mark-twain, military, motivational, pain
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    Mark Twain
    “I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities. Seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right. Sometimes wrong. But no matter, the crowed follows it. The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized are secretly kindhearted, and shrink from inflicting pain. But in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don’t dare to assert themselves.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: civilized, majority, mark-twain, minority, morality-quotes, satin, the-mysterious-stranger
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    “Bring people together, and they'll awaken to their common humanity. A similar thought led Mark Twain to quip, "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
    ― Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
    tags: empathy, humanity, mark-twain, travel, travel-quotes
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    Howard Zinn
    “Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
    ― Howard Zinn
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
    tags: hope
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: learning
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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver
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    Isaiah Berlin
    “We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.”
    ― Isaiah Berlin
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    William Blake
    “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    tags: knowledge
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “Drowning people
    Sometimes die
    Fighting their rescuers.”
    ― Octavia Butler
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “Choose your leaders
    with wisdom and forethought.
    To be led by a coward
    is to be controlled
    by all that the coward fears.
    To be led by a fool
    is to be led
    by the opportunists
    who control the fool.
    To be led by a thief
    is to offer up
    your most precious treasures
    to be stolen.
    To be led by a liar
    is to ask
    to be told lies.
    To be led by a tyrant
    is to sell yourself
    and those you love
    into slavery.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
    tags: cowards, fools, leaders, leadership, liars, thieves, tyrants
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “Beware:
    Ignorance
    Protects itself.
    Ignorance
    Promotes suspicion.
    Suspicion
    Engenders fear.
    Fear quails,
    Irrational and blind,
    Or fear looms,
    Defiant and closed.
    Blind, closed,
    Suspicious, afraid,
    Ignorance
    Protects itself,
    And protected,
    Ignorance grows.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
    tags: truth
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    Naomi Klein
    “Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.”
    ― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
    tags: violence, war
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    “The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.”
    ― Michael Kazin, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
    tags: american-imperialism, arrogance, brutality, imperialism, united-states, war, war-on-terror
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    Eric Hoffer
    “Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
    tags: disappointment
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    Eric Hoffer
    “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
    ― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
    tags: belief, movements, philosophy, politics
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    Eric Hoffer
    “Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.”
    ― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
    tags: politics
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    Eric Hoffer
    “You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
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    Eric Hoffer
    “Anger is the prelude to courage.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
    tags: anger, courage
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    Eric Hoffer
    “Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
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    Eric Hoffer
    “In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
    tags: innovation
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