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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

by Malcolm Gladwell

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Feb 21, 2026 06:22AM

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אנה קארנינה חלק א

by Leo Tolstoy

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All the Conspirators

by Christopher Isherwood

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Rakis’s Quotes

“The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Quintessence of Ibsenism

tags: believe, liar, lie, punishment

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“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

tags: war-mongering

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“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: attributed-no-source, cats, life, music

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“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
― Woody Allen

tags: love

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“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
― Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice

tags: pride-and-prejudice

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