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“Always remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

tags: fools, haters, idiots, rumors

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#2

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#3

“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”
― Brian Tracy

tags: be-yourself, life, remaining-silent, reticence, wisdom

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#4

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
― Ambrose Bierce

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#5

“Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

tags: communication, remaining-silent, reticence

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#6

“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

- Breeze”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

tags: humor, remaining-silent, reticence

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#7

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence

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#8

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
― Mark Twain

tags: remaining-silent, reticence

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#9

“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: remaining-silent, speaking, tact

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#10

“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: remaining-silent

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#11

“I don't bother fighting with people, I just glare at them and think they're all idiots in my head.”
― Victoria Estrada

tags: idiots

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#12

“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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#13

“Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.”
― Toba Beta

tags: hypocrisy, lies, naive

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#14

“I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

tags: hypocrisy

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#15

“The first and best victory is to conquer self”
― Plato

tags: inspirational

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#16

“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself”
― Plato

tags: contentment, music, wealth

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#17

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
― Plato

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#18

“True friendship can exist only between equals.”
― Plato

tags: equals, friendship

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#19

“The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.”
― Frantz Fanon

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#20

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

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#21

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: denial, honesty, truth

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#22

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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#23

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

tags: greatness

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#24

“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
― Socrates

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#25

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Socrates

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#26

“Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.

[Blog post, March 12, 2012]”
― Jim C. Hines

tags: freedom-of-speech, stupidity

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#27

“I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement”
― Robert Jordan, The Gathering Storm

tags: stupidity

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#28

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear

tags: corruption, fear, oppression, power

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#29

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#30

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx

tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society

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