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#1

“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

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#2

“Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: attributed-no-source, fake-quote, fake-quotes, false-quote, false-quotes

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#3

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

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#4

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
― Pericles

tags: politics

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#5

“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: politics, religion

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#6

“I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis”
― Antony Beevor

tags: confirmation-bias, historiography, history, thesis

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#7

“To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make”
― Antony Beevor

tags: writing

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#8

“Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?”
― Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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#9

“In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.”
― Stanisław Jerzy Lec

tags: humanity, peace, war

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#10

“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

tags: barbarian, barbarism, customs, law, nature, self-centered

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#11

“Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho.”
― Jean Luc Godard

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#12

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: bravery, courage, fear

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#13

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: forgiveness, inspirational

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#14

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems

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#15

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

tags: bible, christianity, evolution, science

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#16

“Eppur si muove.”
― Galileo Galilei

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#17

“With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.”
― Galileo Galilei

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#18

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

tags: principia, science

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#19

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Anonymous

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#20

“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see”
― John Lennon

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#21

“Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a
mistake.”
― John Cleese

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#22

“Itseoppinut on ainoa oppinut. Muut ovat opetettuja.”
― Erno Paasilinna, Lausui alustaja, joka korosti – Kootut aforismit ja aforistiset lauseet 1967–1987

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#23

“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.”
― John Lennon

tags: and, best, humor, john-lennon, non-violence-and-humor, quote, violence

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#24

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

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#25

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

tags: civilization, writers, writing

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#26

“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.”
― Hermann Hesse

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#27

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism

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#28

“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#29

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#30

“If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.”
― Albert Camus

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