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    John Steinbeck
    “Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too. - Tom Joad”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    Iain M. Banks
    “Zakalwe, in all human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”
    ― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons
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    Iain Banks
    “An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.”
    ― Iain M. Banks, Excession
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
    ― Ernesto Guevara
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Criss Jami
    “True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: cool, courage, experience, fool, glamorous, lifestyle, misunderstood, original, pioneers, rebels, risk, standing-out, take-a-stand
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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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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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Iain M. Banks
    “The bomb lives only as it is falling.”
    ― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons
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    Iain M. Banks
    “I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.”
    ― Iain M. Banks
    tags: atheism, atheism-and-attitude, bbc, cancer, death
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    Iain M. Banks
    “The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
    ― Iain M. Banks
    tags: fiction, fiction-writing, writing, writing-craft
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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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  • #19
    “Λες:
    Πολύ καιρό αγωνίστηκες. Δεν μπορείς άλλο πια
    ν' αγωνιστείς.
    Άκου λοιπόν:
    Είτε φταις, είτε όχι
    σαν δεν μπορείς άλλο να παλέψεις, θα πεθάνεις.

    Λες:
    Πολύ καιρό έλπιζες. Δεν μπορείς άλλο πια
    να ελπίζεις.
    Έλπιζες τι;
    Πως ο αγώνας θα 'ναι εύκολος;
    .
    .
    .
    Αν δεν καταφέρουμε το αδύνατο
    δεν έχουμε ελπίδα.
    Αν δεν κάνουμε αυτό που κανείς δεν μπορείς να μας ζητήσει
    θα χαθούμε.

    Οι εχθροί μας περιμένουν να κουραστούμε.

    Όταν ο αγώνας είναι στην πιο σκληρή καμπή του,
    οι αγωνιστές έχουν την πιο μεγάλη κούραση.
    Οι κουρασμένοι χάνουν τη μάχη.”
    ― Μπέρτολτ Μπρεχτ
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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
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    Alan Moore
    “The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory.

    The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.

    The world is rudderless.”
    ― Alan Moore
    tags: 9-11-conspiracy-theories, alex-jones, confirmation-bias, conspiracy, conspiracy-theories, young-men
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  • #22
    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading
    2712 likes



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