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

“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
― John Wooden

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“After all this time?"
"Always...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“India is no longer a constitutional democracy but a populist one.”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

“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

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation