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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
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    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    ― Niels Bohr
    tags: science
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    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?
    tags: crazy, men, stupid, truth, women
    7639 likes

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    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom
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    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
    tags: underface
    744 likes

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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: books, reading
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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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    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
    tags: politics-language
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    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought
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    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
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    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
    tags: fear, masks
    1954 likes

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    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
    tags: history
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    Jeffrey D. Sachs
    “History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
    ― Jeffrey Sachs
    tags: class, condition, human, maldistribution, poor, poverty, rich, wealth
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    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
    tags: poor, rich, society
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Voltaire
    “There is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #21
    “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
    ― Selwyn Duke
    tags: misattributed-to-orwell
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