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    Oliver Sacks
    “Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
    ― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “We are all savages”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Two men looked out from prison bars,
    One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: badness, fake, genuine, genuineness, goodness, hypocrisy, mermaid, self-acceptance, self-awareness, siren, white-witch, wizard
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    Noël Coward
    “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
    ― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit
    tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8
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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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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, flattery, gender, hypocrisy, independence, men, misogyny, rationality, reason, self-determination, self-sufficiency, social-norms, stereotypes, strength, women, women-s-rights
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    José Emilio Pacheco
    “We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”
    ― José Emilio Pacheco, Battles in the Desert & Other Stories
    tags: hypocrisy, judgement
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adversity, conflict, criticism, defaming, gossip, hatred, hypocrisy, hypocrisy-in-everyone, hypocrites, insecurity, jealous-women, jealousy, judgement, low-self-esteem, revenge, rumors, self-observation, slander, women
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: hypocrisy
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    Moderata Fonte
    “Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.”
    ― Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
    tags: clichés, double-standards, feminism, gender, history, hypocrisy, men, misogyny, prejudice, slander, social-norms, stereotypes, truth, women
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    Noam Chomsky
    “For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
    tags: crime, double-standards, hypocrisy, politics, power, war-crimes
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, expectations, false-belief, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, illusions, misconceptions, misogyny, stereotypes, women
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  • #17
    “Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”
    ― Warren Wiersbe
    tags: diplomacy, hypocrisy, love, tact, truth, truth-telling
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: blaming, blaming-others, brokenness, disorders, hatred, high-standards, hypocrisy, ignoring, illness, issues, judgement, judging-others, learning, narcissistic, no-conscience, no-filter, paranoia, poor-character, problems, realization, respecting-others, self-absorbed, self-abuse, self-realization, trust, trustworthy
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: benevolence, charity, generosity, hypocrisy, pets
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, misogyny, morality, protectiveness, social-norms, stereotypes, womanhood, women
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    George Orwell
    “He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
    ― George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
    tags: hypocrisy, man, shooting-an-elephant
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    Toba Beta
    “Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.”
    ― Toba Beta
    tags: hypocrisy, lies, naive
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    Oscar Wilde
    “And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: hypocrisy, moral
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    Max Stirner
    “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”
    ― Max Stirner
    tags: crime, government, hypocrisy, law, politics, unjust, violence
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    Heraclitus
    “The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.

    (translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)”
    ― Heraclitus, Fragments
    tags: aeon, aion, child, fragment-52, play, terence-mckenna
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