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“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”
― Billy Wilder

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“We're all hurtling towards death. Yet here we are, for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die. Each of us secretly believing we won't.”
― Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York

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“Real education is about getting people involved in thinking for themselves- and that's a tricky business to know how to do well, but clearly it requires that whatever it is you're looking at has to somehow catch people's interest and make them want to think, and make them want to pursue and explore.”
― Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

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“(I think, legally speaking, there’s a very solid case for impeaching every American president since the Second World War. They’ve all been either outright war criminals or involved in serious war crimes.) The”
― Noam Chomsky, How the World Works

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