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    Hippocrates
    “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
    ― Hippocrates
    tags: ignorance, knowledge, opinion, science
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    Hippocrates
    “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
    ― Hippocrates
    tags: food, health, medicine
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: history
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Power concedes nothing without a demand.”
    ― Frederick Douglas
    tags: politics
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Frederick Douglass
    “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: strength
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: abolition, human-rights, politics, slavery, suffrage
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: ignorance
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: injustice
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: death, inspirational
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, discovery, identity, self-discovery, service
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    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    ― Herbert Bayard Swope
    tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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    Carter G. Woodson
    “When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.”
    ― Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro
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    Chris Rock
    “If you're black, you got to look at America a little bit different. You got to look at America like the uncle who paid for you to go to college, but who molested you.”
    ― Chris Rock
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: wisdom
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: love, misattributed, peace, william-gladstone
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart
    tags: corrupts, epics, heroes, power, save
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    John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
    “A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.”
    ― John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
    tags: wisdom
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    John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
    “History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. ”
    ― John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
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    George Carlin
    “Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: evangelism, freedom-of-religion, religion, tolerance
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    George Carlin
    “Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: atheism
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: animals, attributed-no-source, friends, humor, vegetarianism
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

    {Letter to celebrated scientist Alexander von Humboldt, 6 December, 1813}”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: alexander-humboldt, alexander-von-humboldt, free-government, history, humboldt, ignorance, priest
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    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
    ― Paul McCartney
    tags: beatles, vegetarianism
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    Albert Einstein
    “It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: human, temperament, vegetarianism
    502 likes



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