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    “The most dangerous phrase in the language is 'we've always done it this way”
    ― Admiral Grace Hopper
    tags: change, progress
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    Chuck Jones
    “Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.”
    ― Chuck Jones
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    “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
    ― Jackie Robinson
    tags: impact, life, meaning
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    Tom Lehrer
    “I often feel like a resident of Pompeii who has been asked for some humorous comments on lava.”
    ― Tom Lehrer
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    Frank Zappa
    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: be-yourself, life, self-determination
    3314 likes

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  • #6
    Jack Black
    “Instead of finding fault with the fire, I gave thanks for the metal to take the temper and hold it.”
    ― Jack Black, You Can't Win
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: dissent, graffiti, hunter-s-thompson, hunter-thompson, subversion
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  • #8
    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
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    Terence McKenna
    “If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.”
    ― Terence McKenna
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    Leon C. Megginson
    “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”
    ― Leon C. Megginson
    tags: adaptability, evolution, misattributed-to-darwin, survival, survival-of-the-fittest
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  • #11
    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: funny, humanity, humor
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  • #12
    Zhuangzi
    “Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.”
    ― Zhuangzi
    tags: dreaming, dreams, lucidity, reality
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  • #13
    Bill Watterson
    “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
    ― Bill Watterson
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  • #14
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: family, individuality, live-in-the-here-and-now, live-in-the-moment, present-moment, self-determination
    271 likes

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  • #15
    Ambrose Bierce
    “All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce
    tags: delusion, humor, lunatics, philosopher
    312 likes

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  • #16
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: books, truth
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  • #18
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: fact
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    Ray Bradbury
    “People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
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    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: change
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  • #21
    Will Rogers
    “Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
    ― Will Rogers
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  • #22
    Carl Sandburg
    “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
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  • #24
    Carl Sagan
    “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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  • #25
    Scott McCloud
    “Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.”
    ― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
    tags: art, comics, creativity, human-activity, instincts, reproduction, sequential-art, survival
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  • #25
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge
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    Isaac Asimov
    “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of 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: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance
    2465 likes

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  • #27
    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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  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers
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  • #29
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your own clothes.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    George Carlin
    “Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: class-war, poor, rich
    95 likes



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