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    Franz Kafka
    “If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.”
    Franz Kafka, The Castle

  • #2
    “The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ”
    Rebecca McClanahan

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana

  • #10
    Ljupka Cvetanova
    “A smart woman doesn't have to think if she is beautiful. A beautiful woman doesn't have to think if she is smart.”
    Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

  • #11
    Ljupka Cvetanova
    “I would have sold my soul to the devil, but my boss had a better offer.”
    Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

  • #12
    Ljupka Cvetanova
    “Be careful with the mask. You may get used to it.”
    Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

  • #13
    Ljupka Cvetanova
    “Normality? Keeping one's insanity a secret.”
    Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

  • #14
    Angelica Hopes
    “Kakistocracy protects kleptocrats. They all wear the evil, manipulative gloves of greed and power play. ~ Angelica Hopes, Karmic Harvest Trilogy”
    Angelica Hopes

  • #15
    Ljupka Cvetanova
    “It's easy to write the history. All the eyewitnesses are dead.”
    Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

  • #16
    Ljupka Cvetanova
    “Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes a successful political campaign.”
    Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

  • #17
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

  • #18
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.”
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #22
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #23
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #24
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #25
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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    John Green
    “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
    John Green

  • #27
    “A wise man always has something to say, whereas a fool always needs to say something.”
    Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

  • #28
    Alexander Pope
    “If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
    Alexander Pope

  • #29
    Matt Taibbi
    “For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.”
    Matt Taibbi, The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #31
    Matt Taibbi
    “The extent to which we hate and fear each other now -- that's not any one person's fault. But no one person was more at fault than Roger Ailes. He never had a soul to sell, so he sold ours.”
    Matt Taibbi



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