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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Albert Camus
    “Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: dark, stars
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    Friedrich A. Hayek
    “Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”
    ― Friedrich von Hayek
    tags: communism, fascism
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    Friedrich A. Hayek
    “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.”
    ― Friedrich August von Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty
    tags: coercion, equality, exclusivity, liberty, marginalized-people, oppression, privilege
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    Friedrich A. Hayek
    “The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.”
    ― Friedrich A. Hayek
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    Ronald H. Coase
    “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”
    ― Ronald H. Coase, Essays on Economics and Economists
    tags: data-analysis, torture
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength
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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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    David Hume
    “Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
    ― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
    tags: errors, philosophy, religion
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: honesty, integrity, lying, misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, trust
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  • #14
    “there's always a book in the assassin's bag.”
    ― Dominic Owen Mallary, Destroyer of Man: Selected Poems
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    Herman Melville
    “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: religion, sobriety
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: life, story
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    David Foster Wallace
    “You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

    "I give."

    "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: agnosticism, dogs, dyslexia, god, humor, insomnia, pain
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    Walter Kaufmann
    “Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire….
    ….The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty”
    ― Walter Kaufmann
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    T.E. Lawrence
    “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
    ― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
    tags: dreamers, dreaming, dreams, open-eyes, open-mind
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: empathy, honesty, self-awareness
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  • #23
    Lisa Feldman Barrett
    “It takes more than one human brain to create a human mind.”
    ― Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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    Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
    “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
    ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: knowledge
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