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    George Orwell
    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
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    David Hume
    “When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.”
    ― David Hume
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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “What you can imagine depends on what you know.”
    ― Daniel Dennett
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    Miyamoto Musashi
    “You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
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    Bruce Lee
    “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: advice, bruce-lee, inspirational
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    Jonathan Swift
    “You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday”
    ― Jonathon Swift
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    Jacques Lacan
    “Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.”
    ― Jacques Lacan
    tags: meaning
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Sun Tzu
    “One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.”
    ― Sun Tzu
    tags: fight, sun-tzu, war
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    Jacques Derrida
    “What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
    ― Jacques Derrida
    tags: censorship, language, speech, truth, writing
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    Jean Baudrillard
    “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
    ― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations
    tags: truth
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: information, journalism, mainstream-media, newspapers
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will provide plenty of time for silence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
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    John Stuart Mill
    “If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
    ― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
    tags: liberty, majority-v-minority, philosophy
    275 likes

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    John Stuart Mill
    “The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”
    ― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
    tags: philosophy, philosophy-of-life
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    John Stuart Mill
    “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
    ― John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867
    tags: duty, paraphrased, political, political-philosophy, us-history
    578 likes

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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
    Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
    Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
    Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
    Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
    Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
    Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Thomas Paine
    “Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: christianity, religion, separation-of-church-and-state, skepticism
    125 likes

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    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: evil
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    Edmund Burke
    “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: doomed-to-repeat-it, history, learning, school
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
    10542 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
    tags: happiness, love
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    Bertrand Russell
    “And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: god, religion
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World
    tags: communism, democracy, dishonesty, funny, humour, politicians, politics, revolution, socialism
    840 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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    W.H. Auden
    “The Ogre does what ogres can,
    Deeds quite impossible for Man,
    But one prize is beyond his reach:
    The Ogre cannot master speech.

    About a subjugated plain,
    Among its desperate and slain,
    The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
    While drivel gushes from his lips.”
    ― W.H. Auden, Selected Poems
    tags: drivel, ogres
    39 likes

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    Oriana Fallaci
    “To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.”
    ― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born
    35 likes



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