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#1

“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”
― Voltaire

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#2

“فى قاموسى الكافر، ثمة كلمة واحدة مقدسـة: الصداقة”
― Milan Kundera, La festa dell'insignificanza

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#3

“المؤمن ليس إنسانا قد اضاف إلى معارفه مجموعة من الأفكار الجديدة ,بل هو إنسان يسلك ويعمل بتوجيه من هذه الإفكار”
― فراس السواح, دين الإنسان: بحث في ماهية الدين ومنشأ الدافع الديني

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#4

“الفلسفة تبقى بعد كل شيء, امتدادًا لفكر صاحبها وتعبيرًا عن توجهاته ومواقفه؛ إنها أمر شخصي بحت ولدينا من الفلسفات قدر ما لدينا من الفلاسفة.”
― فراس السواح, دين الإنسان: بحث في ماهية الدين ومنشأ الدافع الديني

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#5

“أنا أؤمن بقول يقول إن الإنسان لا يموت دفعة واحدة ،
كلما مات له قريب أو صديق أو واحد من معارفه
فإن الجزء الذي كان يحتله هذا الصديق أو القريب ...
يموت في نفس هذا الإنسان !..
ومع الأيام وتتابع سلسلة الموت ...
تكثر الأجزاء التي تموت داخلنا ...
تكبر المساحة التي يحتلها الموت ...
و أنا يا لينا ... أحمل مقبرة كبيرة داخلي ، تفتح هذه القبور أبوابها ليلاً ...
ينظر إليّ نزلاؤها .. يحادثونني ويعاتبونني .”
― مصطفى خليفة, القوقعة: يوميات متلصص

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#6

“البطل لا يمكن أن يكون بطلاً لسلوكه طريقاً بالإكراه”
― مصطفى خليفة, القوقعة: يوميات متلصص

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#7

“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

tags: corruption, power

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#8

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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#9

“A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane.”
― Aldous Huxley, Grey Eminence

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#10

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.

[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

tags: education, intellectuals, intelligence

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#12

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship

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#12

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
― Aristotle

tags: greek, mentors, philosophy, teachers

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#13

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: dune

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#14

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

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#15

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Simone Weil

tags: ethics, evil, good, morality, reality

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#16

“Man accepts death but not the hour of his death. To die any time, except when one has to die!”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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#17

“Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’

Which of us was right, boss?”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

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#18

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
― Epictetus

tags: self-deprecating, self-deprecating-humor, self-deprecation

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#19

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars

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#20

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#21

“But in the influencer economy, drama is always to be monetised, and so on 5 April 2019, a tearful Jessy took out her camera, fixed her ponytail and began to record a monologue for YouTube with the caption ‘STOP REPORTING MY INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT’:”
― Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

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#22

“In recent decades, aspiration has been heavily wrapped up not in what we aim to do, achieve or create but in what we can afford to buy.
Young adults and teenagers have been under more and more pressure to be successful with fewer means to do so. Brands have aggressively told us that the road to contentment is through consumption.”
― Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

tags: social-media, social-media-behaviour

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#23

“The internet was supposed to democratise the spread of information and make companies more open by elevating the independent voice of consumers, but the world of surgery is just one example of how easily that can be corrupted by warped incentive models”
― Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

tags: democracy, plastic-surgery-marketing, social-media-audiences, social-media-behaviour, social-media-branding

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#24

“Politicians and popular culture have attached heroism to entrepreneurship.”
― Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

tags: entrepreneurship, heroism, social-media-marketing

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#24

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#26

“In a world where we are encouraged to fake it, the first person you have to convince is yourself. Self-deception is the first step in an economy that thrives off the need to present such demeaning work as worthwhile. After that, everyone else is easier to fool.”
― Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

tags: influencer-marketing, social-media-addiction, social-media-behaviour

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#27

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#28

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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#29

“Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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