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    Karl Marx
    “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society
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    Bertrand Russell
    “To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
    tags: philosophy, truth
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
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    Dorothy Parker
    “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I hate writing, I love having written.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: writing, writing-process
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    Alain Badiou
    “All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”
    ― Alain Badiou, Metapolitics
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    Charlie Brooker
    “proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so”
    ― Charlie Brooker
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: love, madness
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: humility, self-improvement
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: attributed-no-source, writing
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    Andy Warhol
    “Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
    ― Andy Warhol
    tags: criticism
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude
    tags: existence, existentialism, maturity, youth
    448 likes

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    Erich Fromm
    “Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”
    ― Erich Fromm
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    Walter Benjamin
    “There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
    ― Walter Benjamin
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    Walter Benjamin
    “To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
    ― Walter Benjamin
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”
    ― Theodor W. Adorno
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    tags: inspiration, preparation
    110 likes

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    Zygmunt Bauman
    “For one to be free there must be at least two.”
    ― Zygmunt Bauman, Freedom
    tags: free, freedom
    64 likes

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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Art is not a mirror held up to reality
    but a hammer with which to shape it.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo
    tags: error, science
    296 likes

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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
    ― Bertold Brecht
    tags: present
    157 likes

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    Michel Foucault
    “I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Dante Alighieri
    “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: gates-of-hell, hell, latin, motto
    906 likes

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    Holly Woodlawn
    “The boys at the baths loved me. Of course, they were all drunk and high and would've loved a French poodle barking out "Jingle Bells"!”
    ― Holly Woodlawn, A Low Life in High Heels: The Holly Woodlawn Story
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    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    A.A. Milne
    “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: a-a-milne, pooh
    1032 likes



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