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    Rudyard Kipling
    “I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked by Himself: And Other Stories
    tags: cats, pride, self-containment, solitude
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli
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    Confucius
    “We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”
    ― Confucius
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    Assata Shakur
    “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
    ― Assata Shakur
    tags: assata-shakur, education, heroes, history, knowledge
    376 likes

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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: deception
    965 likes

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  • #6
    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
    3904 likes

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    Sun Tzu
    “The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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    Isaac Asimov
    “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
    13961 likes

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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli
    tags: daring, risk, success
    945 likes

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  • #11
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli
    tags: deceive, deceiver, deception, pleasure
    36 likes

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  • #12
    Epicurus
    “I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: death, existence, life
    128 likes

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    Alex Hirsch
    “Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don't let anyone ever tell you you aren't smart or brave or worthy enough.”
    ― Alex Hirsch, Gravity Falls: Journal 3
    tags: author, bill-cipher, dipper-pines, gravity-falls, grunkle-stan, mabel-pines, stanford-pines, stanley-pines
    121 likes

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  • #14
    Michel de Montaigne
    “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: fear, paradox, suffer, suffering
    765 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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  • #16
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail
    tags: civil-disobedience
    115 likes

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  • #17
    Ovid
    “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
    ― Ovid
    tags: activism, change, inspirational, perseverance
    1077 likes

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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4083 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism
    3174 likes

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  • #20
    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
    1834 likes

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  • #21
    “Remember! Reality's an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold! Byeeee!”
    ― Bill Cipher Gravity Falls tv show
    tags: humor, mystery
    52 likes

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  • #22
    Lemony Snicket
    “If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator
    824 likes

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  • #23
    Octavia E. Butler
    “I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
    tags: books, stories, telling-stories, writing
    189 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: complaints, histrionics, hysterics, irony, mrs-bennett, suffering
    746 likes



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