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    Rudyard Kipling
    “I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars
    tags: humor, justification, mistakes, pretexts
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    Noam Chomsky
    “I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: authority, challenge, dismantle, domination, freedom, heirarchy, human-freedom, illegitimate-power, justification
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: justification, power, wisdom-in-war
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation V-VII
    tags: actions, justification, wrong
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    Tariq Ali
    “It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.”
    ― Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
    tags: 2010, 20th-century, activism, civil-disobedience, civil-rights, civil-rights-movement, politics, protest, racism, united-states
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    “We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The future represents an idea or expectations that influence our present state of mind.”
    ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
    tags: future, journey-of-life, past, past-and-present, personal-history, present-and-future, state-of-being, state-of-consciousness, state-of-mind
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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