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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Walter Cronkite
    “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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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Václav Havel
    “As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.”
    ― Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala
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    Václav Havel
    “Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it”
    ― Vaclav Havel
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    Molly Ivins
    “So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds,
    but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Be outrageous... rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through celebrating the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was!”
    ― Molly Ivins
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    Molly Ivins
    “It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK?

    (Getting Control of the Frontier, Gainsville Sun, March 22, 1995)”
    ― Molly Ivins
    tags: big-government, government, regulation, rules, society
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    Molly Ivins
    “There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.”
    ― Molly Ivins
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    Molly Ivins
    “What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.”
    ― Molly Ivins
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
    ― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
    tags: democrats, liberal, politics
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    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [Remarks on the first
    “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

    [Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: peacefulness, political-rights, protest, revolution, violence
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  • #13
    “...the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”
    ― Edward Kennedy
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    Ronald Wright
    “John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
    ― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
    tags: american-dream, misattributed-to-john-steinbeck
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    Sarah Vowell
    “I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.”
    ― Sarah Vowell
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    Sarah Vowell
    “I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water'... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.”
    ― Sarah Vowell
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    Sarah Vowell
    “When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.”
    ― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
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    Sarah Vowell
    “American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.”
    ― Sarah Vowell
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    Sarah Vowell
    “The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.”
    ― Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
    tags: power-of-thoughts, zealotry
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    Chris Hedges
    “The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.”
    ― Chris Hedges
    tags: battle, drug, the-hurt-locker, war
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    Chris Hedges
    “Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”
    ― Chris Hedges
    tags: violence, war
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    Chris Hedges
    “There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.”
    ― Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
    tags: war-genocide
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    Sharon Kay Penman
    “I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.”
    ― Sharon Kay Penman, The Reckoning
    tags: garden, hope
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    Sharon Kay Penman
    “In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.”
    ― Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
    tags: abilities, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, feminist, gender, greatness, human-nature, husbands, hypocrisy, integrity, men, men-and-women, misogyny, penina-mezei, skills, stereotypes, strong, wives, women
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"

    "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
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    Albert Einstein
    “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: compassion, einstein, nature, philosophy
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers
    tags: death
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    Paulo Coelho
    “We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: life
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