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#1

“I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: dare, macbeth, man

298 likes

#2

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy

3021 likes

#3

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: family, readers, reading

1491 likes

#4

“Power rarely ends up in the hands of those who start a revolution, or even those who further it; power sticks to those who bring it to a conclusion”
― Robert Greene

tags: power

6 likes

#5

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

tags: dare, inspirational, life, science, time, value, waste

2883 likes

#6

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

11445 likes

#7

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, philosophy

4621 likes

#8

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

3999 likes

#9

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: drugs, philosophy, politics

2704 likes

#10

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, philosophy

3933 likes

#11

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

3563 likes

#12

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

2375 likes

#13

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

2747 likes

#14

“You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

38 likes

#15

“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: luxuries, poor, thoreau, wise

50 likes

#16

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

1732 likes

#17

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: conflict, politics, war

2063 likes

#18

“Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions. ”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

193 likes

#19

“All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control.”
― Milton William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse

10 likes

#20

“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
― William Randolph Hearst

tags: misattributed-to-george-orwell, news, public-relations

715 likes

#21

“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

237 likes

#22

“he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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