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

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,399 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,824 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
9,157 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,819 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,389 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,772 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
5,197 people liked it

"I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing."
— Mae West

tags: modeling, women
204 people liked it

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics
1,562 people liked it

"7 DEADLY SINS

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
876 people liked it

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
— George Orwell

tags: language, politics
233 people liked it

"You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena."
— Jon Stewart

tags: democracy, government, humor, politics
134 people liked it

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

tags: truth
556 people liked it

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: inspirational
345 people liked it

"The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
— George Orwell

tags: history
140 people liked it

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: future
106 people liked it

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
— George Orwell

tags: generations, intelligence, wisdom
81 people liked it

"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

Politics and the English Language, 1946"
— George Orwell

tags: writing
63 people liked it

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
— George Orwell

tags: liberty
61 people liked it

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
848 people liked it

"If "con" is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress? Or did we just fucking blow your mind?!?"
— Jon Stewart (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America)

51 people liked it

"If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies."
— Jon Stewart

63 people liked it

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