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#1

“The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

tags: ashitaka, princess-mononoke

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#2

“If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: blame

295 likes

#3

“We have become a civilization based on work—not even “productive work” but work as an end and meaning in itself.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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#4

“The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru

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#5

“It’s hard to imagine a surer sign that one is dealing with an irrational economic system than the fact that the prospect of eliminating drudgery is considered to be a problem.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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#6

“There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru

53 likes

#7

“Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

tags: beauty, hatred, inspirational, life, living, wonder

179 likes

#8

“Observations always involve theory.”
― Edwin Powell Hubble, The Realm of the Nebulae

tags: epistemology, models, observations, science, theory

8 likes

#9

“There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them.”
― Niels Bohr

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#10

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: absurd, humour, truth, wisdom

629 likes

#11

“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think”
― Niels Bohr

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#12

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: science

4226 likes

#13

“No such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and hence more or less informative.”
― Konrad Lorenz

tags: analogy, science, science-communication

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#14

“I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

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#15

“But, after all, no safeguards are adequate, unless the will to give effect to them fully is present.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, Letters for a Nation: From Jawaharlal Nehru to His Chief Ministers 1947-1963

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#16

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru

tags: travel

228 likes

#17

“I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

tags: friendship, love, romance

728 likes

#18

“Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

tags: democracy, equality

38 likes

#19

“The outgroup is rocks.”
― Joseph Felsenstein, Inferring Phylogenies

tags: biology, evolutionary-biology, origin-of-life, phylogenetics, science-humor, systematics

1 likes

#20

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational

7934 likes

#21

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

tags: inspirational

8065 likes

#22

“Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru

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