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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Albert Einstein
    “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: dangerous, evil, people, world
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    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    Albert Einstein
    “So long as there are men, there will be wars.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Noam Chomsky
    “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: debate, politics
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    tags: education, humor, intelligence, mathematics, statistics
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    Henry Ford
    “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: banks, henry-ford, monetary-policy
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: mathematics, poetry
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    Henry Ford
    “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: progress-henry-ford
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    Bruce Lee
    “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: adaptation, life
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    George Orwell
    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech, liberty
    304 likes

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    Tom Stoppard
    “Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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