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    George Orwell
    “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: military, police, violence
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    Eric Clapton
    “I am and always will be a blues guitarist”
    ― Eric Clapton
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    Eric Clapton
    “For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.”
    ― Eric Clapton
    tags: blues, music, power-of-music
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    Eric Clapton
    “If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.”
    ― Eric Clapton
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    Eric Clapton
    “I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.”
    ― Eric Clapton
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: fanaticism, zealot
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort
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    Elie Wiesel
    “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”
    ― elie wiesel
    tags: genocide, holocaust, war, witness
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    Tim O'Brien
    “It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.”
    ― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars
    tags: humor, justification, mistakes, pretexts
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous - Kim
    tags: history, storytelling
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
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    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: evil
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #27
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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  • #29
    “And, in the end
    The love you take
    is equal to the love you make.”
    ― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
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  • #30
    “(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
    "How do you find America?"
    "Turn left at Greenland.”
    ― Ringo Starr
    tags: america, beatles, geography, greenland, humor, media, wordplay
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  • #31
    “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
    ― Paul McCartney
    tags: beatles, vegetarianism
    699 likes



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