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    Mitch Albom
    “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: death, life
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    Muhammad Iqbal
    “The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.”
    ― Allama Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
    tags: human-experience, illusion, mysticism, religion
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: confidence, encouragement, heart, human-experience, knowledge, positivity, self-esteem, understanding, wisdom
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    Kage Baker
    “I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.”
    ― Kage Baker
    tags: genre, history, human-experience, past-and-future, past-and-present, science-fiction, sf
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    Connie Willis
    “The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.”
    ― Connie Willis, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories
    tags: church-choir, human-experience
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    James Van Praagh
    “As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you.”
    ― James Van Praagh, Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side
    tags: choices, consciousness, exist, ghosts, happen, human-experience, life, living, other-side, truth, uncovering, world
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    “How wrong and petty any life is.”
    ― David Wojahn, Mystery Train
    tags: human-experience, human-nature
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    W. Norris Clarke
    “Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.”
    ― W. Norris Clarke, The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics
    tags: human-experience, philosophy
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    Justice Aaron Fowler
    “Hope is never the loudest voice-it's the quiet hum beneath despair, the fragile thread we follow when the world seems intent on unraveling.”
    ― Justice Aaron Fowler, The Despondent
    tags: against-all-odds, debut-author, debut-novel, human-experience, inspirational, philosphy-of-people, postmodernism
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 32: The Illustrated London News, 1920-1922
    tags: arguments, debating, honesty, integrity
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    Criss Jami
    “It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: anticipation, apologetics, apologists, argumentation, arguments, attack, bear, compliment, counter, counter-argument, defense, evangelism, evangelism-apologetics, evangelists, hugs, philosophers, philosophy, retort, ridicule, theologians, theology
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    Weike Wang
    “One thing he says: If you could be an emotion, it would be spite.

    One thing I say: If you could be an animal, it would be a sloth.

    But I only say that out of spite.”
    ― Weike Wang, Chemistry
    tags: arguments, fights, relationships, spite
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    Marcese Maschietto
    “If you corner a man with a gun he will fight to the death, if you corner him with arguments he will call you an idiot.”
    ― Marcese Maschietto
    tags: argumentation, arguments, common-sense, facts, logic, wisdom
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    Laurie R. King
    “Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.”
    ― Laurie R. King, O Jerusalem
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    Carmela Dutra
    “Laughter is like a little miracle we all experience everyday.”
    ― Carmela Dutra
    tags: laughing-quotes, laughing-together, laughter, miracle-quotes, miracles
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    Carrie Fisher
    “I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that.”
    ― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist
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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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    “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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    Mark Twain
    “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: history
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom
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    Zadie Smith
    “Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
    ― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
    tags: history
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: fate, history
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    Epictetus
    “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: history, humility, philosophy
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    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    “Never say more than is necessary.”
    ― Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    tags: essay, history
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: history
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    Confucius
    “Study the past if you would define the future.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: direction, future, history, learning, moving-forward, past, strategy
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    Rosa Luxemburg
    “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
    ― Rosa Luxemburg
    tags: evolution, freedom, history, liberation, progress, struggle
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    James Joyce
    “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: history, truth
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: history, lies, lying, propoganda, rewriting-history, self-deception
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: america, history, immigration, politics, revolution, united-states, usa
    1117 likes



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