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#1

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#2

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
― Desmond Tutu (Foreword)

tags: bullying, dissent, moral-courage, protest

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#3

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: evil

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#4

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

tags: education, feminism, men, women

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#5

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: apocryphal, feminism

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#6

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, dissent, protest

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#7

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics and Politics

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, good, patriotism, value, virtue

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#8

“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: activism, complicity, dissent, protest, truth-telling

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#9

“You see, the great thing about madness is that it's all in your head.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

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#10

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth

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#11

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: qotd

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#12

“I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.”
― Libba Bray

tags: blog-post, humor, insanity

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#13

“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

tags: insanity, madness, sanity

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#14

“There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: fantasy, insanity, madness, normal, reality, rothfuss

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#15

“Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.”
― Emilie Autumn

tags: awareness, insanity

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#16

“A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

tags: gaze, human, stars

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#17

“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: life

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#18

“We’ll never survive!”
“Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: doubt, humor, optimism, survival

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#19

“Love is many things none of them logical.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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#20

“And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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#21

“Love is not a weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

tags: brave-hearts, commitment, love

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#22

“The easiest lies to tell are the true ones.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

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#23

“The difference between a hero and a victim? Timing.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

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#24

“Excuses are poison,” Ed repeated. “Doing the right thing is hard. Talking yourself out of it is easy.”
― Taylor Adams, No Exit

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#25

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

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#26

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
― Phyllis Diller

tags: anger, funny, sleep

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#27

“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: aeneid, book-vii, line-312

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#28

“Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

tags: chapter-v

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#29

“In Equality, There's No Authority.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

tags: equality, friendship

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