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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Harper Lee
    “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish”
    ― Julius Caesar
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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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    Homer
    “Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”
    ― Homer, Iliad
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
    Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
    Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
    Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
    Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
    Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
    Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Ayn Rand
    “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: fight, happiness, learn
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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    Frederick Douglass
    “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: strength
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    Frank Herbert
    “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: corruption, government, ideology, magnetism, mythology, politics, power, religion, science-fiction
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    William F. Buckley Jr.
    “Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”
    ― William F. Buckley
    tags: politics
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    T.H. White
    “The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
    ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
    tags: truth
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: childhood, growing-up, innocence
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    Alastair Reynolds
    “A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.”
    ― Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World
    tags: politics, sf, social-commentary
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Winter is coming.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: forcasting, mottos, winter
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    Pierce Brown
    “There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Golden Son
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    Pierce Brown
    “Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
    tags: enslave, free, injustice
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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    James Luceno
    “Uncertainty is the first step toward self-determination,” Plagueis said. “Courage comes next.”
    ― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: family, readers, reading
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: atheism, organized-religion, religion
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: history, lies, lying, propoganda, rewriting-history, self-deception
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    Homer
    “The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.”
    ― Homer
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”
    ― Julius Caesar
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    Ayn Rand
    “The giants of the intellect, whom you admire so much, once taught you that the earth was flat and that the atom was the smallest particle of matter. The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies, not of achievements.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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    Ayn Rand
    “There are no 'rights' of special groups, there are no 'rights of farmers, of workers, of businessmen, of employees, of employers, of the young, of the old, of the unborn.' There are only the Rights of Man -- rights possessed by every individual man and by all men as individuals.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
    tags: economics, philosophy, rights-of-man
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    Ayn Rand
    “A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets; a philosophical battle is a nuclear war.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It
    tags: philosophy, politics
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