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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#2

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#3

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: division, unity

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#4

“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

tags: christlikeness, fellowship, friendship, holiness, sanctification, unity

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#5

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: political-philosophy

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#6

“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
― John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867

tags: duty, paraphrased, political, political-philosophy, us-history

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#7

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: banks, debt, deficit-spending, government, loans, political-science, politics

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#8

“It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting."

"Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card”
― Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd

tags: dimples, eddie-fischer, get-out-of-jail-free, odd-thomas, sarcasm

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#9

“Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...”
― Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd

tags: anonymity, desires, evil, masquarades, odd-thomas, travels

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#10

“If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.”
― Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd

tags: back-to-the-beginning, circles, circles-within-circles, end, harmony, journey, odd-thomas, patternless-world, patterns, start

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#11

“The self-righteous scream judgments against others to hide the noise of skeletons dancing in their own closets.”
― John Mark Green

tags: hypocrisy, hypocrites, hypocrites-judge, judging-others, judgmental, scream, skeletons-in-the-closet

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#12

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: abraham-lincoln, life, politics, religion, science

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#13

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: apathy, democracy, elections, voting

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#14

“We are living in a world where moral climates have no atmosphere.”
― Roderick Vincent, The Cause

tags: dystopian-novel, hassani, morality-life, politicians, politics, the-cause, topical

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#15

“In England, the struggle between church and kings would take centuries to resolve. Interestingly, in the end, neither institution came out on top. Today, each is as powerless as the other. As people power emerged, we invented politicians. We're not bright.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Symphony of Echoes

tags: church-and-state, politicians, power-struggle

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#16

“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
― Graham Greene, The Third Man

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#17

“Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.”
― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher : The Greatest Speeches

tags: democracy, inspirational, leadership, reality

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