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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “On est de son enfance comme on est d'un pays.

    We are from our childhood as we are from one country.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: quote-antoine-de-saint-exupéry
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    Mark Twain
    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: birth, born, day, important, life, reasons-why, true
    1835 likes

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    Alvin Toffler
    “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
    ― Alvin Toffler
    tags: futuristic
    788 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Paul Gauguin
    “Art is either revolution or plagiarism”
    ― Paul Gauguin
    tags: art
    89 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: dangerous-place, do-something, evil, world
    41 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Primo Levi
    “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
    ― Primo Levi
    tags: common-men, danger, existence, holocaust, monsters, questions
    843 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: certainty, doubt, fanatics, fools, wisdom
    256 likes

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    James Madison
    “If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
    ― James Madison
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  • #12
    “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
    ― Selwyn Duke
    tags: misattributed-to-orwell
    230 likes

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  • #13
    “Minimalism is not a lack of something. It’s simply the perfect amount of something.”
    ― Nicholas Burroughs
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
    6412 likes

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    Margaret Thatcher
    “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: entitlement, government
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    C.G. Jung
    “The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
    Carl Jung
    Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: evil, sadism
    224 likes

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
    ― Goethe
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    Thomas Szasz
    “People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
    ― Thomas Szasz
    tags: psychology
    226 likes

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    Sigmund Freud
    “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
    tags: fear, freedom, responsibility
    1785 likes

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    John Lennon
    “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: inspirational, life
    8115 likes

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    J. Krishnamurti
    “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
    ― J. Krishnamurti
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    Marina Tsvetaeva
    “Если что-то болит - молчи, иначе ударят именно туда.”
    ― Марина Цветаева
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: industriousness, inspirational, purpose
    253 likes

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    W. Clement Stone
    “Be careful the environment you choose, for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”
    ― W. Clement Stone
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    Anthony Hopkins
    “I once asked a Jesuit preist what was the best short prayer he knew. He said "Fuck it." as in "Fuck it, it's in Gods hands.”
    ― Anthony Hopkins
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I want
    To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love
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    Zechariah Chafee Jr.
    “Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins.”
    ― Zechariah Chafee Jr.
    tags: citizenship, community, liberty
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    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
    “Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.”
    ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books
    tags: character, critical-thinking, opinions, peace-of-mind, strength
    133 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
    tags: art, individualism
    264 likes

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    Max Frisch
    “To write is to read one's own self”
    ― Max Frisch
    4 likes



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