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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am Not young enough to know everything”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: children, parents
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    Winston Churchill
    “Churchill conveying a message to the lord privy seal "tell his lordship I am sealed in the privy and can only deal with one shit at a time”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: sex
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    Voltaire
    “You're a bitter man," said Candide.
    That's because I've lived," said Martin.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Voltaire
    “Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
    tags: optimism
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    Voltaire
    “Let us cultivate our garden.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Voltaire
    “Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
    tags: boredom, evil, greed, labor, need, vice, want, weariness, work
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    Voltaire
    “When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    H.L. Mencken
    “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, politics, predictions, voter, voting
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: education, government, political-philosophy, public-duty, voting
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    Isaac Asimov
    “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: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting
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    Francis Bacon
    “Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    Stephanie Anne Allen
    “If you are sitting in the dark (due to depression) go turn the light on. If you can't find the light switch, seek the help of someone who can.”
    ― Stephanie Anne Allen, How to Survive Depression: Book #1 in How to Survive Series
    tags: depression, inspiration, mental-illness, recovery
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