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    Evelyn Beatrice Hall
    “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
    ― Evelyn Beatrice Hall, The friends of Voltaire
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    James Madison
    “Our First Amendment freedoms give us the right to think what we like and say what we please. And if we the people are to govern ourselves, we must have these rights even if they are misused by a minority.”
    ― James Madison
    tags: censorship, founders, freedom-of-speech-quotes
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    James Madison
    “Cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them; that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT, good.”
    ― James Madison, The Federalist Papers
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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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    Stephen King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: taxes
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
    ― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
    tags: christmas
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    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    Agatha Christie
    “Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
    "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House
    tags: humor, thinking
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
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    Cassandra Clare
    “As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
    tags: coffee, humor, optimism, solace
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: humor, politics, stupidity
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    George Lucas
    “No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
    ― George Lucas, The Star Wars Trilogy
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    Lewis Carroll
    “The time has come
    The walrus said
    To talk of many things:
    Of shoes- and ships-
    And sealing wax-
    Of cabbages and kings-
    And why the sae is boiling hot-
    And whether pigs have wings.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie Brownest.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
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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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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
    inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: common-sense
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.' - To Neville Chamberlain”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    James Mackintosh
    “The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.”
    ― Sir James Mackintosh
    tags: coffee, humor, intelligence
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    “I love coffee. I sometimes get excited at night thinking of the coffee I’ll get to drink in the morning. Coffee is reason to wake up. There are other reasons, of course. But coffee is the incentive, at the very least.”
    ― Annie Clark
    tags: coffee
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    Larry McMurtry
    “If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”
    ― Larry McMurtry
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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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    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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    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes
    17480 likes



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