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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Albert Einstein
    “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, skepticism
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    George Carlin
    “I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: organized-religion, religion
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    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism, politics
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    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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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: right-and-wrong
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: starting, working
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    Edward Snowden
    “Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
    ― Edward Snowden
    tags: privacy, snowden
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    Richard Dawkins
    “Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
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    Albert Einstein
    “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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    Ed White
    “I’m coming back in… and it’s the saddest moment of my life.”
    ― Ed White
    tags: nasa
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    Philip K. Dick
    “There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: dystopia, liberty, spying, surveillance, surveillance-society, technology
    574 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Better is the Enemy of Good”
    ― Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
    tags: completing-a-task, completion, improvement
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    Julian Assange
    “Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store.”
    ― Julian Assange
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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: heartbreak
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    “We're in danger of being so tolerant that we tolerate ourselves out of existence.”
    ― Gerard Batten
    tags: tolerance-vs-acceptance
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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “What is your friend: the things you know, or the things you don't know. First of all, there's a lot more things you don't know. And second, the things you don't know is the birthplace of all your new knowledge! So if you make the things you don't know your friend, rather than the things you know, well then you're always on a quest in a sense. You're always looking for new information in the off chance that somebody who doesn't agree with you will tell you something you couldn't have figured out on your own! It's a completely different way of looking at the world. It's the antithesis of opinionated.”
    ― Jordan B. Peterson
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
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    Peter Hitchens
    “The EU is the continuation of Germany by other means”
    ― Peter Hitchens
    tags: eu, soverignty, totalitarianism
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    Friedrich A. Hayek
    “If socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists.”
    ― Friedrich Hayek
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    Friedrich A. Hayek
    “While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”
    ― Friedrich A. von Hayek, The Mirage of Social Justice
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    Friedrich A. Hayek
    “From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.”
    ― Friedrich A. von Hayek
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    Friedrich A. Hayek
    “Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.”
    ― Friedrich Hayek
    tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, free-markets, freedom, libertarian, liberty, nap, non-aggression-principle, politics, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, violence, voluntaryism
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress
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    Thucydides
    “You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.”
    ― Thucydides
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-to-thucydides
    94 likes



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