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“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

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#2

“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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“Thank God for immigrants. They're the only ones who have any personality left. They still allow themselves emotions, judgments, and all those qualities that we are "evolving" past. I don't know what they're saying, but I can tell they're speaking honestly.”
― Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

tags: america, american-culture, americans, changing-times, communication, cultural-differences, differences, ethnicity, honesty, immigrant-experience, immigrants, immigration, language, melting-pot, new-york-city, new-yorkers, race, showing-emotion, showing-the-world-who-you-are, united-states

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“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

tags: facts, farce, georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, hegel, history, history-repeats-itself

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