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    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    tags: life
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor, politics
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All thinking men are atheists.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    tags: atheism, inspirational
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    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
    ― Mario Vargas-Llosa
    tags: books, writing
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
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    Albert Einstein
    “On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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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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    Nelson Mandela
    “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
    ― Ernesto Guevara
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    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
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    Nelson Mandela
    “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
    ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
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    Nelson Mandela
    “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: freedom, liberty
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Carlin
    “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
    ― George Carlin
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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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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Bertrand Russell
    “It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    “Enslaved people recognized that the slavery they were experiencing was shaped by the ability of whites to move African Americans’ bodies wherever they wanted. Forced migration created markets that allowed whites to extract profit from human beings. It brought about a kind of isolation that permitted enslavers to use torture to extract new kinds of labor.”
    ― Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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    Nelson Mandela
    “During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    William Blackstone
    “All presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds it better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent party suffer.”
    ― William Blackstone
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    Walter Cronkite
    “America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: america, health-care, health-insurance, united-states, usa
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    Voltaire
    “Dare to think for yourself.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: freedom-of-thought
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    Edward Abbey
    “Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues.”
    ― Edward Abbey
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    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
    ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    tags: acquiescence, activism, free-speech, justice, principles, protest
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: participate, responsibility, stop-terrorism, terror, terrorism
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