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    “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
    ― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire
    tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
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    Bruce Lee
    “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

    Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
    ― Bruce Lee
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  • #5
    Dr. Seuss
    “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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  • #9
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: hitler
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: bravery, decisiveness, failure, inaction, success, timidity
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: decisiveness, inaction, just-do-it, timidity, wisdom
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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  • #15
    “Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”
    ― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
    tags: inspiration, life
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    Tricia Cunningham
    “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.”
    ― Tricia Cunningham
    tags: diet, fitness, health, inspiration, motivation
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: inspirational, motivational
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  • #18
    Helen Keller
    “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
    ― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
    tags: joy, meekness
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  • #19
    Stephenie Meyer
    “He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
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    Bruce Lee
    “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
    ― Bruce Lee
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  • #21
    “It is born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.”
    ― Benjamin E. Mays
    tags: inspirational, wisdom
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Judy Blume
    “[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: books, censorship
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    Salman Rushdie
    “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom
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    Harry Truman
    “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

    [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
    ― Harry S. Truman
    tags: censorship, dissent, freedom-of-speech, opposition, politics, repression
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    Golda Meir
    “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
    ― Golda Meir, My Life
    tags: censorship, history, orwellian, past, present
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  • #27
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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  • #29
    Kelley Armstrong
    “What's next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute.”
    ― Kelley Armstrong, Stolen
    tags: vampires
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  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #31
    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: funny, humanity, humor
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    George Carlin
    “I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, humor, patriotism
    1430 likes



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