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    E.L. James
    “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”
    ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker
    tags: sarcasm
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    George Carlin
    “Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: atheism
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    Jerzy Kosiński
    “I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity”
    ― Kosinski, Jerzy
    tags: suicide-note
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    Karl Marx
    “In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”
    ― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
    tags: labor, wage, work
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    Karl Marx
    “The bourgeoisie . . . has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilized ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.”
    ― Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
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    Michael Crichton
    “God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.”
    ― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
    tags: science
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    L. Ron Hubbard
    “Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.”
    ― L. Ron Hubbard
    tags: battles, conflict, ideas, intelligence, progress, war
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    Betty Friedan
    “The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.”
    ― Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
    tags: creative-work, feminism
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    Betty Friedan
    “No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
    ― Betty Friedan
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    Blaise Pascal
    “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: ironic, sad
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    “The bulk of suffering does not stem from 'dreadful' experiences but rather from frightening beliefs.”
    ― Abraham Low
    tags: beliefs, suffering
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    George R.R. Martin
    “I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: architect, craft, gardener, writers, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-craft, writing-process
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    “The measure of a mind's evolution is it's acceptance of the unacceptable”
    ― Thea Alexander, 2150 A.D.
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Four basic factors are present in every story, with varying degrees of emphasis: milieu, idea, character, and event.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Characters & Viewpoint
    tags: genre, story
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    Timothy Ferriss
    “A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”
    ― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek
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    “Inhale the present, exhale the past and the future.”
    ― Leticia Rae
    tags: breathing, exhale, future, inhale, meditation, past, present
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    Samantha Chase
    “Inhale the future, exhale the past.”
    ― Samantha Chase, One More Promise
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    “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
    ― Robert J. Hanlon
    tags: evil, malice, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, misattributed-to-einstein, stupidity
    348 likes

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    Karl Marx
    “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society
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    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
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    Karl Marx
    “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”
    ― Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
    tags: human-condition
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    Karl Marx
    “Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
    ― Karl Marx
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    Karl Marx
    “If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

    [In a letter about the peculiar 'Marxism' which arose in France 1882]”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: marxism
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    Karl Marx
    “There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.”
    ― Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
    tags: fatigue, inspirational, royal-road, science, summit
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    Karl Marx
    “Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”
    ― karl marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
    tags: communism, history, riddle, solution
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    “Competition is for losers.”
    ― Peter Thiel
    tags: admonition, arch-nemesis, competition, distractions, focus, motivation, self-improvement, time
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    Voltaire
    “Perfect is the enemy of good.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-to-jim-collins, work-ethic
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    Garry Kasparov
    “Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.”
    ― Garry Kasparov
    tags: assumptions, chess, games, intelligence
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    Frank Herbert
    “He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: commodity, economics, science-fiction, spice, supply-chain
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    Yukio Mishima
    “Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”
    ― Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses
    365 likes



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