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    “The carnival of carnage that takes place every day, month and year in the realm of industry; the thousands of useful lives that are annually sacrificed to the Moloch of greed; the blood tribute paid by labor to capitalism, brings forth no shout for vengeance and reparation; no tear, except from the family and friends of the victims.”
    ― D. Douglas Wilson
    tags: cuba, labor-union, spanish-american-war
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  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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  • #3
    James Baldwin
    “The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Eugene V. Debs
    “The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.”
    ― Eugene V. Debs, Speeches of Eugene V. Debs with a Critical Introduction
    tags: 1918, labor, union, wwi
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  • #5
    Eckhart Tolle
    “Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle
    tags: mindfulness, present-moment
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    Eugene V. Debs
    “I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
    ― Eugene V. Debs, Writings and Speeches of Eugene V. Debs
    tags: 1918, labor, union, wwi
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    Noam Chomsky
    “If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. This hypothetical Martian would probably conclude that human beings were an evolutionary error.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: global-warming, nuclear-war
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  • #8
    “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”
    ― Charlotte Whitton
    tags: feminism, gender-stereotypes, men-and-women
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  • #9
    Franz Kafka
    “Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with a new confirmation of my existence, since nothing was in my very own, undoubted, sole possession, determined unequivocally only by me — in sober truth a disinherited son — naturally I became unsure even of the thing nearest to me, my own body.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father
    tags: child-abuse, childhood-trauma, narcissism, narcissistic-personality, shame
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  • #10
    R.F. Delderfield
    “One of these days the entire Western world will grind to a halt, its apparatus clogged with forms, files and memoranda.”
    ― R.F. Delderfield, To Serve Them All My Days
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    Robert B. Reich
    “It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.”
    ― Robert B. Reich
    tags: aftershock, happiness
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    Ralph Ellison
    “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
    ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
    tags: control, defeat, humanity, life
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  • #13
    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    tags: death, humor, life
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  • #14
    T.S. Eliot
    “Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: editor, writing
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  • #15
    John Lennon
    “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
    ― John Lennon
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  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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  • #17
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
    tags: realismo-magico
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  • #18
    Lao Tzu
    “The best fighter is never angry.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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  • #19
    Ellen Bass
    “One woman was sure that her father would appear on her front steps and try to kill her. In actuality, he hid from her after that, avoiding her totally. He was scared of her. You may not realize it, but you hold a lot of power when you tell the truth.”
    ― Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
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  • #20
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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  • #21
    “He should have recognized that what really fascinated him was the hunt, the adventure of searching out his victims. And, to a degree, possessing them physically, as one would possess a potted plant, a painting or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual.”
    ― Ted Bundy
    tags: serial-killer, the-only-living-witness
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  • #22
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: scars, souls, suffering
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  • #23
    Leon C. Megginson
    “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
    ― Leon C. Megginson
    tags: interesting
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  • #24
    Lao Tzu
    “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: attributed-no-source, music
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  • #25
    Ernest Hemingway
    “It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: love, marriage
    545 likes

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  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
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  • #28
    Edward Abbey
    “Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: action, deeds, ruin, sentiment, soul
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  • #29
    Lao Tzu
    “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity
    3892 likes

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  • #30
    John Lennon
    “The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, life, perception, truth
    4668 likes



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