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    Liam Payne
    “The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose”
    Liam Payne

  • #3
    Ronald Wright
    “John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
    Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

  • #4
    “If you know how quickly people forget the dead you will start living your life on your own terms instead of other people’s terms.”
    Samuel Clément

  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”
    Mark Twain, Who Is Mark Twain?: Unpublished Personal Papers and Essays―Twenty-Six Works of Humor and Satire

  • #7
    George A. Romero
    “When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.”
    George A. Romero, Dawn of the Dead

  • #8
    Carl Sagan
    “I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

    The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
    Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark



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