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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: adolf-hitler, electoral-politics, george-w-bush, humor, politics
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92172 likes

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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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    George Burns
    “Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
    ― George Burns
    tags: humor, politics
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    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
    ― Ernest Benn
    tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems
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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
    40999 likes

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    Keith Richards
    “If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
    ― Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words
    tags: drugs, music, philosophy, politics
    1608 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
    18231 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
    18880 likes

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    William S. Burroughs
    “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: drugs, philosophy, politics
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The End
    tags: catalog, doomed-to-repeat-it, history, humor, paraphrased
    488 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: books, truth
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    James Joyce
    “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: history, truth
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    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
    3018 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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    علي الوردي
    “كلّما ازداد الإنسان غباوة .. ازداد يقيناً بأنه أفضل من غيره في كل شيء .”
    ― علي الوردي, مهزلة العقل البشري
    1382 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers
    3560 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inspirational, kindness
    3298 likes

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    Sayyid Qutb
    “و إن طوقتني جيوشُ الظلام .. فإني على ثقة ... بالصباح”
    ― سيد قطب
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    Mark Twain
    “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: education
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    Sayyid Qutb
    “إن إصبع السبابة الذي يشهد لله بالوحدانية في الصلاة ليرفض أن يكتب حرفا واحدا يقر به حكم طاغية”
    ― سيد قطب
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    Sayyid Qutb
    “و في ظلال القرآن تعلمت أنه لا مكان في هذا الوجود للمصادفة العمياء, و لا للفلتة العارضة: ((إنا كل شيء خلقناه بقدر)).. ((و خلق كل شيء فقدره تقديرا))..و كل أمر لحكمة. و لكن حكمة الغيب العميقة قد لا تتكشف للنظرة الإنسانية القصيرة.”
    ― سيد قطب, في ظلال القرآن
    tags: المصادفة, حكمة-الغيب
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    Mark Twain
    “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bank, bankers, humor
    1600 likes

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    Sayyid Qutb
    “عندما نعيش لذواتنا, تبدو الحياة قصيرة ضئيلة تبدأ من حيث نعى, وتنتهى بانتهاء عمرنا المحدود. أما عندما نعيش لغيرنا, أى عندما نعيش لفكرة, فإن الحياة تبدو طويلة , عميقة. تبدأ من حيث بدأت الإنسانية وتمتد بعد مفارقتنا لوجه هذه الأرض , إننا تربح أضغاف عمرنا الفردى فى هذه الحالة
    نربحها حقيقة لا وهماً”
    ― سيد قطب, أفراح الروح
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
    ― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
    tags: government, kidding, misattributed-mark-twain, stupidity
    1409 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-children
    1104 likes

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    Noam Chomsky
    “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
    tags: democracy, mass-media, propaganda, repression, totalitarianism
    340 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem
    2362 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: comedy, media, society
    140 likes



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