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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: disinformation, hype, ignorance, indoctrination, influence, misquoted, power, propaganda
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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
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    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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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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    Jimmy Stewart
    “Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.”
    ― Jimmy Stewart
    tags: fear, jimmy-stewart, mistakes
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    Jimmy Stewart
    “It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?”
    ― Jimmy Stewart
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    “It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
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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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    James Baldwin
    “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Ibn Battuta
    “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
    ― Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah
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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
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Nadia Bolz-Weber
    “Once a seminary student asked to shadow me for two days to see what my life as a pastor was like. At the end, he said, "Oh my gosh, you're basically a person for a living.”
    ― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
    tags: ministry, pastoral-ministry, pastoring, vocation
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    Toni Morrison
    “There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”
    ― Toni Morrison
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    William Shakespeare
    “He was a man, take him for all in all,
    I shall not look upon his like again.”
    ― Wm. Shakespeare , Hamlet
    tags: honor
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    Warsan Shire
    “At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
    ― Warsan Shire
    tags: day, end, home, warsan-shire
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    John Howard Griffin
    “We've reached a poor state when people are afraid that doing the decent and right thing is going to help the communist conspiracy.”
    ― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
    tags: activism, justice, right-and-wrong
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    James Baldwin
    “You never had to look at me. I had to look at you. I know more about you than you know about me. Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
    ― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro
    tags: racism-in-america
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    Germany Kent
    “If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.”
    ― Germany Kent
    tags: abundance, abundance-and-attitude, abundance-creation, abundance-quote, advice, analytics, attitude-is-everything, best-practices, biz-talk, brand-experience, brand-strategy, brands, break-the-cycle, communication-online, communication-tips, content, cyberspace, digital-citizens, digital-citizenship, digital-footprint, digital-influencer, digital-life, digital-lit, digital-media, digital-skills, digitale, direction, driven-by-purpose, ed-tech, entrepreneur, facebook, facebook-quotes, germany-kent, germany-kent-quote, germany-kent-quotes, goals, golden-rules, google-plus, gratitude, higher-education, hope-guru, ideas, inspiration, instagram, instagram-quotes, internet, life-and-living, life-experience, life-hack, life-lessons-quotes, life-philosophy, lifestyle, like-a-pro, linkedin, linkedin-quotes, live-in-the-moment, live-with-purpose, marketing-automation, media-literacy, millennials, motivational-enlightenment, motivational-inspirational, motivational-speaker, need-to-know, need-to-know-now, netiquette, network, network-marketing, networking, networking-quotes, note-to-self, on-trend, online, online-communication, online-discussion, online-education, online-marketing, optimism, optimization, passion, passion-quotes, passionate-living, perception, perception-of-reality, perceptions, personal-branding, personal-development, personal-growth, pinterest, positive-outlook, positivity, productivity, professional, promote, real-talk, rebranding, seo, smart-tech, social-education, social-intelligence, social-media, social-media-101, social-media-addiction, social-media-advice, social-media-audiences, social-media-author, social-media-behavior, social-media-for-authors, social-media-life, social-media-marketing, social-media-mind, social-media-tools, social-networking, social-networks, success, success-self-improvement, success-strategies, table-talk, take-action, tech, the-hope-guru, think-before-you-post, think-before-you-tweet, tips-and-tricks, to-do, to-do-it, to-do-list, top-tips, trends, twitter, twitter-advice, twitter-audiences, twitter-mind, twitter-nation, twitter-quote, twitter-quotes, web, what-you-tweet, words-to-live-by, you-are-what-you-tweet, you-owe-it-to-yourself, you-tube
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I
    tags: humor
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    Ansel Adams
    “It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: climate-action, climate-change, climate-crisi, environment, government, government-climate-policy, saving-the-planet
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
    tags: environment, exploration, explore, land, mysterious, mystery, nature, sea, unexplorable, unfathomable, wild, wilderness, wildness
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    “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
    ― Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest
    tags: misattributed-to-gandhi
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: conservation, environment, morals, nationalism, patriotism, politics, values
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    Alphonse Karr
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
    ― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden
    tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns
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    Frank Herbert
    “I remember friends from wars all but we forgot.
    All of them distilled into each wound we caught.
    Those wounds are all painful places where we fought.
    Battles never left behind, ones we never sought.
    What is it that we spent and what was it we bought?”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: cost-of-war, war
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    Walter Cronkite
    “America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: america, health-care, health-insurance, united-states, usa
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    Thomas Love Peacock
    “Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?”
    ― Thomas Love Peacock
    tags: corruption-politics, fools, government, government-corruption, incompetence, knaves
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    Kofi Annan
    “Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.”
    ― Kofi Annan
    tags: ignorance, intolerance, prejudice, racism, tolerance
    404 likes



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