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    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “Dare to be naïve.”
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
    ― Ernest Benn
    tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems
    2003 likes

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    Eça de Queirós
    “Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.”
    ― Eça de Queirós
    tags: diapers, politics
    221 likes

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    Malcolm X
    “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
    ― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary
    tags: philosophy, politics
    4340 likes

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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: humor, politics, stupidity
    1653 likes

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    John F. Kennedy
    “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: human-rights, inspirational, politics
    1111 likes

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    Edward R. Murrow
    “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
    ― Edward R. Murrow
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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
    1523 likes

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    Malcolm X
    “You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    999 likes

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    “There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
    ― Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order
    tags: misattributed-milton-friedman, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, tanstaafl, tanstafl
    558 likes

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    Aristotle
    “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: peace, peacemaking, politics, war
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: abolition, human-rights, politics, slavery, suffrage
    656 likes

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    Jarod Kintz
    “The only problem with politicians taking two week vacations every year is it’s about 50 weeks too short.
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    ― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148850 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127576 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114628 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92490 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #22
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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  • #26
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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  • #27
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love
    21630 likes

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  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
    22537 likes

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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
    tags: paraphrase-of-congreve
    15972 likes



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