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    Adam Smith
    “Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
    ― Adam Smith
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Adam Smith
    “It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”
    ― Adam Smith
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    Adam Smith
    “The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public”
    ― Adam Smith, An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. Volume 1 of 2
    tags: business, government
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
    — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)

    "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
    — Churchill's response”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: bernard-shaw, irish, pigs, pointlessness
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: anti-patriotism, identity, nation, nationalism, politics
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: perspective
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    C.S. Lewis
    “It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship, homosexuality, love
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    Ronald Wright
    “John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
    ― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
    tags: american-dream, misattributed-to-john-steinbeck
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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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    Pliny the Younger
    “So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.”
    ― Pliny the Younger, The Letters of the Younger Pliny
    tags: public-speaking, writing
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    John Perkins
    “The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.”
    ― John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
    tags: economics, poverty
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    Herodotus
    “He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'

    The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.”
    ― Herodotus, The Histories
    tags: inspirational
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    Samuel Beckett
    “You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
    tags: life, planets, space-travel
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship, inspirational
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    C.S. Lewis
    “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: love
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: insparational
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    Dorothy Parker
    “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: empty-nest, humor, motherhood, parenthood, parenting
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    Douglas Adams
    “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: humour, life, science, technology
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    C.G. Jung
    “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: authenticity
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: masks
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Umberto Eco
    “When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”
    ― Umberto Eco
    tags: umberto-eco
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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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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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
    ― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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    Harper Lee
    “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.
    -Atticus Finch”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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