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    Chris Rock
    “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
    ― Chris Rock
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    George Carlin
    “That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
    ― George Carlin
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
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    Groucho Marx
    “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
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    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: courage
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    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: human-nature, people, truth
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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse
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    Ray Bradbury
    “If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: inspirational
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Alan Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    ― Alan Moore
    tags: life
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
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    Yann Martel
    “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: life, travel
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: motivational
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    Alan Moore
    “People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: democracy, equality, government, misattributed
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    Lao Tzu
    “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity
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    Lao Tzu
    “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect
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    Alan Moore
    “Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
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    Lao Tzu
    “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: apothegm, beauty, truth
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