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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    Niels Bohr

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #5
    George Carlin
    “Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
    George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

  • #6
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #7
    Shel Silverstein
    “Underneath my outside face
    There's a face that none can see.
    A little less smiley,
    A little less sure,
    But a whole lot more like me.”
    Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

  • #8
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    George Orwell

  • #9
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #10
    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #11
    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    George Orwell

  • #12
    George Orwell
    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
    George Orwell

  • #13
    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

  • #14
    Shel Silverstein
    “There are no happy endings.
    Endings are the saddest part,
    So just give me a happy middle
    And a very happy start.”
    Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

  • #15
    Shel Silverstein
    “She had blue skin,
    And so did he.
    He kept it hid
    And so did she.
    They searched for blue
    Their whole life through,
    Then passed right by-
    And never knew.”
    Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

  • #16
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #17
    Jeffrey D. Sachs
    “History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
    Jeffrey Sachs

  • #18
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #19
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #20
    Voltaire
    “There is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night.”
    Voltaire

  • #21
    “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
    Selwyn Duke



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