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#1

“Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. ”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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#2

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
― Elizabeth Warren

tags: capitalism, greed, responsibility, socialism

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#3

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky

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#4

“She still remembers the effect a certain book can have on people at the right time in their lives. A book, at its most mundane,can be a loaded gun. At its most powerful, it can split the trunk of a tree, mend a broken heart, heal the sick, and topple a corrupt government.”
― Don Borchert, Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library

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#5

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress

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#6

“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali

tags: cowardice, inspirational, intolerance, tolerance

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#7

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

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#8

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

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#9

“The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.”
― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

tags: george-w-bush, god, religion

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#10

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#11

“It has been estimated that 50 percent of all human conceptions end in spontaneous abortion, usually without a woman even realizing that she was pregnant. In fact, 20 percent of all recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. There is an obvious truth here that cries out for acknowledgment: if God exists, He is the most prolific abortionist of all.”
― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

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#12

“Are we being good ancestors?”
― Jonas Salk

tags: evolution, legacy, wisdom

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#13

“We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.”
― Mike Carey & Peter Gross, The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity

tags: creation, frankenstein, monsters

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#14

“Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.”
― Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

tags: beauty, math, mathematics

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#15

“Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?”
― Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

tags: education, learning, math, mathematics

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#16

“Mathematics is the art of explanation.”
― Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

tags: mathematics

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#17

“I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C" and "D." Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism.”
― Barry Goldwater

tags: beliefs, conservatism, government, lobbying, morality, politics, preachers, religion

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#18

“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's a matter of morality.

Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether we're all in it together. Their answer is we're not.

President Obama should proclaim, loudly and clearly, we are.”
― Robert B. Reich

tags: barack-obama, class-warfare, conservatism, economics, liberalism, mathematics, morality, politics, republican-party-united-states, society, united-states

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#20

“And they are tired of being told to “act more like a business” by businesspeople who refuse to allow them to use any of the real tools of business—adequate resources, to begin with.”
― Dan Pallotta, Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

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#20

“Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will help their government remain the world's superpower. All the scientists who worked in and for Germany in the 1930s lived to regret that they directly helped a sociopath like Hitler harm millions of people. Let us not repeat the same mistakes over and over again.”
― Piero Scaruffi

tags: atrocities, dictator, doomed-to-repeat-it, engineering, fascism, freedom, history, hitler, holocaust, illness, insanity, intellectualism, intellectuals, killing, madness, manipulation, mathematics, maths, murder, prosperity, psychopathy, science, sciences, slavery, sociopathy, statistics, strength, suffering, technology, war, world-power

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#21

“The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.”
― Vince Lombardi

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#22

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#23

“Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

(Interview, Time Magazine, February 20, 2005)”
― Clint Eastwood

tags: extremism, politics

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#24

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: ferocity

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#25

“The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.”
― Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, politics

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#26

“You know, there’s a joke in there somewhere. A Highlander, a Viking, and a Samurai walk into a bar.”
― N.R. Walker, Cronin's Key

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#27

“You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are.”
― Carter Crocker, Disney's Pooh's Grand Adventure The Search for Christopher Robin

tags: commonly-misattributed-quotes, misattributed-a-a-milne, winnie-the-pooh

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#28

“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
― Naomi Shulman

tags: justice, nazis, politics, protest, resistance

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#29

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: science

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#30

“The Flint water crisis illustrates how the challenges in America's shrinking cities are not a crisis of local leadership - or, at least, not solely that - but a crisis of systems. Paternalism, even if it is well meaning, cannot transcend the political, economic, and social obstacles that relegate places such as Flint to the bottom. The chronic underfunding of American cities imperils the health of citizens. It also stunts their ability to become full participants in a democratic society, and it shatters their trust in the public realm. Communities that are poor and communities of color - and especially those that are both - are hurt worst of all.”
― Anna Clark, The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

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