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    Leslie Marmon Silko
    “I will tell you something about stories, [he said] They aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.   You don’t have anything if you don’t have the stories.   Their evil is mighty but it can’t stand up to our stories. So they try to destroy the stories let the stories be confused or forgotten. They would like that They would be happy Because we would be defenseless then.”
    ― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
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    “It is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
    ― Becky Chambers, Monk and Robot
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    Albert Einstein
    “A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: education, ethics, morality, needs, religion, sociality, sympathy
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    Dashiell Hammett
    “The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”
    ― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
    tags: crime, crooks, patter
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: ignorance
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    Tom Waits
    “We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
    We are monkeys with money and guns.”
    ― Tom Waits
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    Matthew Catania
    “Fetch me more sharks that I might jump them!”
    ― Matthew Catania
    tags: humor, inspirational
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    Cain S. Latrani
    “There is no morality in inequality. Anyone who says otherwise is damn liar, and a hypocrite.”
    ― Cain S. Latrani
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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    Cain S. Latrani
    “Turns out that disciplining kittens isn't all that easy.”
    ― Cain S. Latrani
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    Matthew Catania
    “An anti-hero is just a villain you spend a lot of time with.”
    ― Matthew Catania
    tags: food-for-thought, human-nature, writing
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    Carl Sagan
    “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: atoms, cosmos, dna, sense-of-wonder, stars
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    “Whatever makes you weird, is probably your greatest asset.”
    ― Joss Whedon
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze
    tags: dream, fucked-up, funny, humor, other, philosophy, relationships
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting
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    Frank Zappa
    “There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
    ― Frank Zappa
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    Michel Foucault
    “Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.”
    ― Michel Foucault, The Foucault Reader
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: hope, inspirational
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Michel Foucault
    “From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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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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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Michel Foucault
    “People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
    ― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “Bring something incomprehensible into the world!”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: art, individuality, inspirational, life, new, otherness
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Michel Foucault
    “A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.”
    ― Michel Foucault
    tags: foucault, practicing-criticism
    14 likes



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