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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor, politics
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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
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: life, philosophy
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    Wolfgang Pauli
    “Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet. (There is no God and Dirac is his Prophet.)

    {A remark made during the Fifth Solvay International Conference (October 1927), after a discussion of the religious views of various physicists, at which all the participants laughed, including Dirac, as quoted in Teil und das Ganze (1969), by Werner Heisenberg, p. 119; it is an ironic play on the Muslim statement of faith, the Shahada, often translated: 'There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his Prophet.'}”
    ― Wolfgang Pauli
    tags: allah, atheism, dirac, heisenberg, humor, islam, muhammad, muslim, paul-am-dirac, paul-dirac, physics, prophet, religious-views, science, werner-heisenberg
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    Leon C. Megginson
    “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
    ― Leon C. Megginson
    tags: interesting
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    Charles Darwin
    “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
    tags: certainty, ignorance, knowledge, open-mindedness, science, willful-ignorance
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    Virgil
    “The descent into Hell is easy”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
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    Virgil
    “Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)
    The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
    tags: hope
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    Virgil
    “It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...”
    ― Virgil
    tags: aeneid
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    Juvenal
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?”
    ― Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
    tags: censorship
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    Juvenal
    “Sit mens sana in corpore sano
    (a healthy mind in a healthy body)”
    ― Juvenal
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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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
    Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
    Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
    Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
    Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
    Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
    Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: history, latin
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Dum Spiro, spero”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: candor, honesty, truth-telling
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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  • #21
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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