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    Oliver Gaspirtz
    “A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.”
    ― Oliver Gaspirtz
    tags: cow, cows, death, flower, flowers, heaven, hell, life-after-death, subjective-experience, subjective-truth
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    Margaret Mead
    “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: individuality, unique
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
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    William Faulkner
    “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
    ― William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
    tags: freedom
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    Naguib Mahfouz
    “Home is not where you are born;
    home is where all your attempts
    to escape cease.”
    ― Naguib Mahfouz
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    “We have learned to see racism in the spittle-laced epithets of the angry bigot. We must also learn to see racism in the coded racial entreaties promoted by calculating demagogues.”
    ― Ian Haney López, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
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    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people
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    Molly Ivins
    “I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.”
    ― Molly Ivins
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    Denis Diderot
    “Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
    ― Denis Diderot
    tags: freedom, monarchy, religion
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    Denis Diderot
    “From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”
    ― Denis Diderot, Essai sur le mérite et la vertu
    tags: barbarism, fanaticism
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    Denis Diderot
    “We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
    ― Denis Diderot
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    Denis Diderot
    “[L]e philosophe n'a jamais tué de prêtres et le prêtre a tué beaucoup de philosophes...

    (The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.)”
    ― Denis Diderot, Political Writings
    tags: killed, priests, religious-violence
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    Denis Diderot
    “A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.”
    ― Denis Diderot
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: enemies, friendship, judgement
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    Baltasar Gracián
    “A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
    ― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
    tags: advice, enemies, foolishness, friends, friendship, strategy, war, wisdom
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  • #17
    Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty,
    “Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: care, christ, christianity, christmas, clothe, enemies, feed, forgive, golden-rule, guilty, hungry, ill, inspirational, jesus, life, love, motivational, naked, service, unwanted, welcome
    681 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
    tags: animal, animal-rights, enemies, eugenics, logic
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    Arnold J. Toynbee
    “America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.”
    ― Arnold Toynbee
    tags: humor
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    Arnold J. Toynbee
    “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
    ― Arnold Toynbee
    tags: cultural-decay
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    Arnold J. Toynbee
    “Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.”
    ― Arnold Joseph Toynbee
    tags: cultural-decay
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    Arnold J. Toynbee
    “Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.”
    ― Arnold Toynbee
    tags: history, militarism, peace, war
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    Arnold J. Toynbee
    “The only real struggle in the history of the world...is between the vested interest and social justice.”
    ― Arnold Toynbee
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    Arnold J. Toynbee
    “The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves.”
    ― Arnold Toynbee
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    Arnold J. Toynbee
    “We are not doomed to make history repeat itself; it is open to us, through our own efforts, to give history, in our case, some new and unprecedented turn. As human beings, we are endowed with this freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.”
    ― Arnold Joseph Toynbee
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    Arnold J. Toynbee
    “Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.”
    ― Arnold Toynbee
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    Arnold J. Toynbee
    “It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”
    ― Arnold Joseph Toynbee
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    Arnold J. Toynbee
    “Schism in the soul, schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme to return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements [of civilization]. Only birth can conquer death―the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.”
    ― Arnold Toynbee
    tags: historical, inspirational, social-evolution
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    Steve Biko
    “The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
    So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.”
    ― Steve Biko
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    Steve Biko
    “The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
    ― Steve Biko
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