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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Yasalar Üzerine
    tags: commandments, essential, justice, law, reason, society
    593 likes

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    Gary Larson
    “Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.”
    ― Gary Larson, The Complete Far Side, 1980–1994
    tags: cartoon, humor, satire, social-commentary
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: benevolence, charity, compassion, kindness
    588 likes

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    Aesop
    “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
    ― Aesop
    tags: humor
    168 likes

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    Aesop
    “It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.”
    ― Aesop
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  • #7
    “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
    ― Anne Herbert
    tags: book-lovers, books, money, reading
    981 likes

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    Will Rogers
    “Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: appearances, credit, life, money, people, pride
    920 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: humor, science
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: science, sex
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    Hélder Câmara
    “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
    ― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
    1002 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion
    1812 likes

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    Will Rogers
    “There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: humor, politics
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    Henri Poincaré
    “Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.”
    ― Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis
    tags: certainty, experiment, novel, science, teach, truth
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
    12384 likes

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    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
    ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women
    12561 likes

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    Bette Davis
    “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
    ― Bette Davis
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women
    6171 likes

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    James Madison
    “The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.

    [Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]”
    ― James Madison
    tags: europe, history, organized-religion, politics, religion, separation-of-church-and-state
    319 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cult, danger, law, organized-religion, power, religion, sect, separation-of-church-and-state
    429 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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    Frédéric Bastiat
    “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
    ― Frédéric Bastiat
    tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, countries, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nations, socialism, statism, taxation, taxes, theft, thugs, voluntaryism
    234 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
    21438 likes



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