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Audrey

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Audrey’s Quotes

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: certainty, perspective, presumption, questioning

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“Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.”
― Stuart Chase, Language in Thought and Action

tags: common-sense, misattributed-to-einstein

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“To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock
in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.”
― W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado

tags: execution

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“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: independent-thought, thinking

518 likes

“When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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