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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
    ― Che Guevara
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.”
    ― Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.”
    ― Che Guevara
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “What I learned on my own I still remember”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: academia, discovery, education, intelligence, learning, reading, schooling, thinking, thought
    217 likes

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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: art, autism, details, intuition, nerd, nerdiness, nerds, poetry, wisdom, wisdom-vs-nerds
    194 likes

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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: intelligence, modern-values, priorities, truths, values, wealth-and-virtues, wisdom
    174 likes

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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: autism, intellectual-sophistication, internet, irony, nerd, nerdery, nerdiness, nerds, post-ironic, post-modern, post-modernism, reddit, sophistication, wisdom-vs-nerds, wit
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: business-ethics, corruption, court-system, courts, ethical-behaviour, ethics, governement, government, law, law-and-order, lawyers, modern-life, modern-society, modernity, modernity-is-a-sickness, the-supreme-court
    78 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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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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    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, fear
    5498 likes

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  • #14
    George R.R. Martin
    “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: death, life
    2581 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: love, mormont
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    George R.R. Martin
    “What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Nothing burns like the cold.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: burn, cold, winter
    1480 likes

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  • #18
    George R.R. Martin
    “Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: disagreement, diversity
    1052 likes

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  • #19
    George R.R. Martin
    “The things I do for love.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: irony
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Don’t call me Lord Snow.”
    The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: jon-snow, tyrion-lannister
    573 likes

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  • #21
    George R.R. Martin
    “There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: game-of-thrones, lion, sheep, tywin-lannister
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  • #23
    George R.R. Martin
    “You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: honor, pride
    327 likes

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  • #24
    George R.R. Martin
    “Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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  • #25
    George R.R. Martin
    “A true man does what he will, not what he must.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    216 likes



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