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    “Legacy. What is a legacy?
    It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.”
    ― hamilton musical
    tags: dead, hamilton-musical, sadness
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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    Thomas Paine
    “The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
    ― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
    tags: words-to-live-by
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    Sahra Wagenknecht
    “There is no justification whatsoever for waging war on undesirable regimes, because these wars ultimately do not favour democracy on the ground.”
    ― Sahra Wagenknecht
    tags: middle-east, politics
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    Sahra Wagenknecht
    “You cannot fight terrorism with terrorism.”
    ― Sahra Wagenknecht
    tags: politics, socialism, terrorism, violence
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never think that war, no matter how necessary nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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  • #7
    Eric Schlosser
    “Did somebody say McUnion? [...] Not if they want to keep their McJob.”
    ― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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    Eric Schlosser
    “General Electric backed the Carousel of Progress, which featured an Audio-Animatronic housewife, standing in her futuristic kitchen, singing about “a great big beautiful tomorrow.”
    ― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #10
    Howard Zinn
    “How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: blowback, propaganda, terrorism, war
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    George Orwell
    “The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: oppression, power, terrorism, torture
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: participate, responsibility, stop-terrorism, terror, terrorism
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    Malala Yousafzai
    “With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”
    ― Malala Yousafzai
    tags: education, malala, terrorism, women-s-rights
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    Noam Chomsky
    “From anti-semite to self-hating jew, all in one day”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: alexander-cockburn, christopher-hitchens, noam-chomsky
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    Woody Guthrie
    “This machine kills fascists.”
    ― Woody Guthrie
    tags: folk-music, guitar, music, power-of-music
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  • #16
    Phil Ochs
    “One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.”
    ― Phil Ochs
    tags: folk-music, politics
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    Woody Guthrie
    “All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well meant.”
    ― Woody Guthrie
    tags: folk-music, good-intentions, lyrics, melancholy, writing
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    Hélder Câmara
    “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
    ― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
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    George Orwell
    “If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, george-orwell, politics, socialism, totalitarianism
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  • #20
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, marxism, radicalism, rebellion, revolution, socialism
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
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  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #23
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #26
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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  • #27
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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  • #29
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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  • #30
    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
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32144 likes



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