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#1

“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

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#2

“Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store.”
― Julian Assange

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#3

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

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#4

“Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success”
― Alex Ferguson, Leading: Lessons in leadership from the legendary Manchester United manager

tags: discipline, inspirational, success

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#5

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: education, schooling, university

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#6

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
― Jim Morrison

tags: control, media, thinking

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#7

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

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#8

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#9

“Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.

In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.”
― Noam Chomsky

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#10

“Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: the-godfather

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#11

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.”
― Peter Singer

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#12

“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes”
― Adolf Hitler

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#13

“I am not going to leave this land, I will die as a martyr at the end … I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time.”
― Muammar Al Gaddafi

tags: martyrdom, revolution, war

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#14

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“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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#16

“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”
― Benito Mussolini

tags: fascist, inspirational

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#17

“It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past.”
― Adolf Hitler

tags: history, nature, religion, spirituality, spirituality-vs-religion

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#18

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: strategy

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#19

“My bookshelves were groaning with WW2 books, Hitler's baleful eyes staring out at me from covers and spines for any new visitor (or passing burglar) to wonder if I might be a fan or at least mildly obsessed.”
― Al Murray

tags: humour, reminiscence, ww2

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#20

“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
― Leon Trotsky

tags: war

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#21

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: atheism, organized-religion, religion

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#22

“History is written by the winners.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: history

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#23

“People are delighted to accept pensions and gratuities, for which they hire out their labour or their support or their services. But nobody works out the value of time: men use it lavishly as if it cost nothing. But if death threatens these same people, you will see them praying to their doctors; if they are in fear of capital punishment, you will see them prepared to spend their all to stay alive.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

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#24

“O mineiro só é solidário no câncer.

Atribuída a Otto Lara Resende no livro de mesmo nome.”
― Nelson Rodrigues, Otto Lara Resende ou Bonitinha, Mas Ordinária e O Beijo no Asfalto

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#25

“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

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#26

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

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#27

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

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#28

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#29

“The experience of defeat, or more particularly the manner in which a leader reacts to it, is an essential part of what makes a winner.”
― Alex Ferguson, Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

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#30

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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