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#1

“to me it sounded more like a pack of thieves making a deal, but then to me no human activity is so reliably boring and shabby as politics.”
― hf saint

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#2

“i was becoming a sack of vomit and fecal matter. i suppose, on reflection, that that is what i had always been, but nature had not formerly imposed this aspect of the human condition quite so vividly upon me.”
― hf saint

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#3

“i didn't see anyone!" she said. "who were you shooting at? what happened?"
there was a long silence. the men looked at each other. then clellan spoke, a little tentatively.
"he's very fast.”
― hf saint

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#4

“Nothing is as far away as one minute ago”
― Jim Bishop

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#5

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

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#6

“Without work men are utterly undone.”
― Nevil Shute, Ruined City

tags: labor

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#7

“I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

tags: newspapers

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#8

“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

tags: painted, veil

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#9

“I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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#10

“If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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#11

“In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.”
― Mary Roach, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

tags: dogma, facts, science, spook

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#12

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
― Howard Zinn

tags: nationalism, patriotism, war

1828 likes

#13

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence

13705 likes

#14

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

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#15

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

16289 likes

#16

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

12933 likes

#17

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: wisdom

1434 likes

#18

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth

5548 likes

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