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#1

“It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: conserve, end-poverty, greed, greedy, humor, humour, keep, look-after, love, make-poverty-history, materialism, perpetuate, poor, poverty, preserve, prevent, prolong, protect, relationships, rich, safeguard, satire, save, sustain, wealth, wealthy

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#2

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
― maya angelou

tags: humor, inspirational, life

6900 likes

#3

“People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world — even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule?”
― Ellen Wittlinger, Parrotfish

tags: transgender

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#4

“You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.”
― L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire

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#5

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: books, literature, reading, words, writing

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#6

“At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
― Warsan Shire

tags: day, end, home, warsan-shire

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#7

“But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

tags: beginning, end, new-beginnings, the-past

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#8

“there are two ways to get at the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer. Scientists gather evidence, look for regularities, form theories explaining their observations, and test them. Attorneys begin with a conclusion they want to convince others of and then seek evidence that supports it, while also attempting to discredit evidence that doesn’t.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

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#9

“I believe in love at first sight…
But it’s not the first moment you lay eyes on a person, it’s the moment you first see the person they truly are.”
― Ranata Suzuki

tags: always-yours, amour, beautiful, beautiful-quote, deep-love, deep-love-quotes, deep-thoughts, desire, devotion, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, longing, love, love-at-first-sight, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, lust, paramour, passion, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, romance, romanticism, secret-love, the-only-one

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#10

“Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive.”
― James Dawson, This Book Is Gay

tags: bi, gay, glbt, lesbian, lgbt, life, queer, stress, trans, truth

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#11

“I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: ambush, coffee, tactics

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#12

“Hope clouds observation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: dune

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#13

“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: stress

574 likes

#14

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

tags: paranoia, proverbs, wit

1754 likes

#15

“The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.”
― Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

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#16

“I may not always be with you
But when we're far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart”
― Marc Wambolt, Poems from the Heart

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#17

“Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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#18

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
― Herman Melville

tags: criticism, poverty

724 likes

#19

“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: humanity, misery, poverty

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#20

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
― Eugene Debs

tags: aristocracy, capitalism, feudalism, inequality, justice, labor, poverty, wealth

522 likes

#21

“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”
― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

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#22

“Well, I may or may not be bitter, but if I were I would have good reasons for it: chief among them that American blindness, or cowardice, which allows us to pretend that life presents no reasons for being bitter.”
― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro

tags: bitterness, racism

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#23

“I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.”
― James Baldwin

tags: civil-rights, inspirational, optimism, pessimism

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#24

“You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings. You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism which enslaves you both. You are deceived and blinded that you may not see how this race antagonism perpetuates a monetary system which beggars both.”
― Thomas E Watson

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#25

“He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box.”
― K.J. Parker, Sharps

tags: evil, false-hope, hope, malice, pain, pandora-s-box

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#26

“We all suffer from dreams.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings

tags: dreams, false-hope, illusions, suffering

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#27

“The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made their living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: abuse-of-the-poor, false-hope, lottery, manipulation

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#28

“Contrary to popular opinion or the escapist trends of society, false hope is in no way better than a harsh truth. A harsh truth is painful to accept, but there's healing at the end. False hope, on the other hand, is a very dangerous thing that offers no reward. Not immediately, nor with the passage of time. It never pays off.”
― Northern Adams, Mickey and the Gargoyle

tags: coping, false-hope, harsh-truth, hope, truth

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#29

“That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!”
― Jesse Ball, The Curfew

tags: false-hope, hope

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#30

“No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!”
― Sheri S. Tepper

tags: false-hope, lies, romance, sentimentality

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