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  • #1
    Lao Tzu
    “Manifest plainness,
    Embrace simplicity,
    Reduce selfishness,
    Have few desires.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Erich Fromm
    “Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.”
    ― Erich Fromm
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    Albert Einstein
    “Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    “It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.”
    ― Marian Wright Edelman
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    Steve Wozniak
    “Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.”
    ― Steve Wozniak
    tags: computers
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    Barack Obama
    “faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts... [you] still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced... the lines between sinner and saved [are] more fluid; the sins of those who come to church are not so different from the sins of those who don't... You [need] to come to church precisely because you [are] of this world, not apart from it; rich, poor, sinner, saved you [need] to embrace Christ precisely because you had sins to wash away... that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world...”
    ― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
    tags: faith, politics
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Bob Marley
    “One love, one heart, one destiny.”
    ― Robert Marley
    tags: bob-marley, compassion, destiny, heart, humanity, inspirational, love
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    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: funny, humanity, humor
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    Mother Teresa
    “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: compassion, connecting, humanity, inspirational, love, sharing
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    Albert Camus
    “At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion
    1813 likes

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    George Orwell
    “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
    ― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950
    tags: humanity, truth, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    Gloria Steinem
    “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: equality, feminism, humanity, men, women
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
    tags: compassion, humanity, love, mankind
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: humanity
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  • #22
    “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
    ― Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest
    tags: misattributed-to-gandhi
    987 likes

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    “The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres
    tags: aliens, earth, humanity, outer-space, universe
    727 likes

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  • #24
    Alexander Pope
    “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes
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    Anne Frank
    “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: humanity
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: animals, goodness, humanity, lambs, sheep
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  • #27
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
    13161 likes

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  • #28
    Jerry Garcia
    “Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
    ― Jerry Garcia
    tags: jerry-garcia
    113 likes



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