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    Daniel S. Peña
    “People that read fucking books don't take action!”
    ― Daniel S. Peña
    tags: fear, procrastination, reading, self-development, success
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: freedom, government, politics
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    George Washington
    “A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: guns, right-to-bear-arms, second-amendment
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    George Washington
    “Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: duty, happiness, honor
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: banks, debt, deficit-spending, government, loans, political-science, politics
    1023 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: writing
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
    25174 likes

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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: education, illiteracy, journalism, literature
    1072 likes

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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: hard-work, luck
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, jefferson, security, thomas, thomas-jefferson
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    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
    13226 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
    succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: honesty, honor, integrity, moral-courage, obligation, truth
    1103 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
    8415 likes

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    Thomas Jefferson
    “History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: government, history, scope-of-government
    564 likes

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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
    tags: civil-rights, geometry, opinions, physics, science
    606 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abraham-lincoln, religion
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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    ― Robert Ingersoll
    tags: adversity, character, power
    3244 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: dissent, duty, independent-thought
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    Dwight David Eisenhower
    “Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
    13162 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: harry-potter, jk-rowling, stephenie-meyer, twilight
    4129 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
    6763 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Lost time is never found again.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: time, wisdom
    783 likes

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    William Faulkner
    “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: revision, writing
    1122 likes



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