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#1

“I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce."
"It’s a clever lettuce, then."
"Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it’s a lettuce?"
"Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked.
"Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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#2

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, politics, predictions, voter, voting

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#3

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
― Vladimir Lenin

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#4

“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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#5

“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
― Howard Zinn

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, democracy, dissent, law, protest, truth-telling

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#6

“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: bad-laws, catholic, catholic-author, christian, democracy, democracy-gone-wrong, error, error-and-truth, evil-laws, gadfly, hard-truths, justice, justice-system, law, laws, morality, morals, philosophical, politics, referrendum, right-and-wrong, truth, voting, votings, wisdom

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#7

“In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

tags: capitalism, democracy, elections, government, greed, wall-street

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#8

“Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity

tags: atrocities, authority, ethics, justification, morality

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#9

“Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate the idealism that wrenches man out of nature; I am not ashamed of my dependency on nature; I openly confess that the workings of nature affect not only my surface, my skin, my body, but also my core, my innermost being, that the air I breathe in bright weather has a salutary effect not only on my lungs but also on my mind, that the light of the sun illumines not only my eyes but also my spirit and my heart. And I do not, like a Christian, believe that such dependency is contrary to my true being or hope to be delivered from it. I know further that I am a finite moral being, that I shall one day cease to be. But I find this very natural and am therefore perfectly reconciled to the thought.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Lectures on the Essence of Religion

tags: atheism, atheist, dependence, finite, hope, idealism, moral, natural, nature, sun

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#10

“[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity

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#11

“Certainly my work is negative, destructive; but … only in relation to the unhuman, not to the human[.]”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity

tags: atheism, philosophy, theism

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#12

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth

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#13

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: atheism, organized-religion, paradox, religion

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#14

“your hand
touching mine.
this is how
galaxies
collide.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: collide, falling-in-love, galaxies, galaxy, hands, indian-authors, love-poems, love-quotes, magical, poetry, poetry-quotes, romance, short-poems, touch, touching

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#15

“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.”
― Tyler Kent White

tags: be-yourself, galaxy, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, science

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#16

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
― Banksy

tags: death-and-dying, oblivion

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#17

“If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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#18

“Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: death, death-and-dying, loss

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#19

“Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.”
― Virgil

tags: carpe-diem, creepy, death, death-and-dying, inspirational, living, philosophical, philosophy, seize-the-day

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#20

“Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

tags: death, death-and-dying, death-of-a-loved-one, depressing, gay-romance, grief, heartbreaking, sad-quotes, time

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#21

“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”
― Benjamin Franklin (attributed, not found in any major work, fake)

tags: death-and-dying

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#22

“It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

tags: death-and-dying

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#23

“The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: beautiful, death-and-dying, goodbyes, life

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#24

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: ethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, philosophy, psychology, science

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#25

“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
― George Orwell

tags: life-happiness

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#26

“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: die, freedom, hate

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#27

“Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, big-brother, george, george-orwell, government, orwell

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#28

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
― George Orwell

tags: courage, truth

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#29

“Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.”
― Philip Slater

tags: capitalism, commercialism, economy, endless-circles, failed-systems, greed, materialism, pursuit-of-loneliness, stuff-things

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#30

“Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own.”
― Osman Doluca

tags: belongings, capitalism, china, communism, expectation, materialism, russia

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