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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.”
    ― Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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    Anatole France
    “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: animals, love, pets
    1070 likes

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    Anatole France
    “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: law, poverty, wealth
    228 likes

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    Omar Khayyám
    “And do you think that unto such as you
    A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew
    God gave a secret, and denied it me?
    Well, well—what matters it? Believe that, too!”
    ― Omar Khayyâm, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
    257 likes

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    محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی
    “در روزهای آخر اسفند
    کوچ بنفشه‌های مهاجر
    زيباست
    در نيم‌روز روشن اسفند
    وقتی بنفشه ها را از سايه های سرد
    در اطلس شميم بهاران
    با خاک و ريشه
    - ميهن سيارشان –
    از جعبه‌های کوچک و چوبی
    در گوشه‌ی خيابان می‌آورند
    جوی هزار زمزمه در من
    می‌جوشد:
    ای کاش
    ای کاش، آدمی وطنش را
    مثل بنفشه‌ها
    (در جعبه‌های خاک)
    يک روز می‌توانست
    هم‌راه خويشتن ببرد هر کجا که خواست
    در روشنای باران
    در آفتاب پاک”
    ― محمد رضا شفيعي كدكني
    tags: كوچ-بنفشه-ها
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    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
    2161 likes

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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
    19835 likes

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    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: funny, humanity, humor
    8881 likes

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    George Carlin
    “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: fighting, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, peace, sex
    4267 likes

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    George Carlin
    “Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
    I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: perspective
    1159 likes

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    Noam Chomsky
    “Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    tags: education, homeschooling, ignorance, public-education
    706 likes

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    Noam Chomsky
    “It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    627 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
    1243 likes

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    Richard Dawkins
    “I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
    ― Richard Dawkins
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    Omar Khayyám
    “Drink wine and look at the moon
    and think of all the civilisations
    the moon has seen passing by.”
    ― Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
    161 likes

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    Aristotle
    “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: crime, poverty, revolution, society
    959 likes

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    Will Rogers
    “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: advice, funny, reticence, silence
    2633 likes

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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “I am, at the Fed level, libertarian;
    at the state level, Republican;
    at the local level, Democrat;
    and at the family and friends level, a socialist.
    If that saying doesn’t convince you of the fatuousness of left vs. right labels, nothing will.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the game
    tags: democracy, libertarianism, politics, republicanism, socialism
    177 likes



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