Sayings & Quotes

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“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.”

Will Rogers


“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein

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“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
Isaac Asimov

“We were all humans until Race disconnected us, religion separated us,politics divided us, & wealth classified us.”
Banksy

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“To be African-American is to be African without any memory & American without any privilege.
James Baldwin

“If a man is to survive,he will learn to take a delight in the essential differences between cultures. To learn that differences in ideas & attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.”
Gene Roddenberry

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“The existence of another poor person is not why you're poor. Its because the people who control everything refuse to increase your wages.”
Jesse Memer

“Next to god, we are indebted to women, first for life itself & then for making it worth living.”
Mary McLeod Bethune

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“If we aren't being taught how to grow our own food, how to take care of ourselves & our families, & how to live without the need for huge governments, banks & corporations – as our ancestors once did – then we aren't being educated: we're being indocrinated to be dependent on & subservient to the system.”
Gavin Nascimento


"Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him.”
Imam Ali

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“Educating yourself does not mean that you were stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent enough to know that there is plenty to learn.”
Melanie Joy

“Attacking the rich is not envy. Hoarding wealth is the cause of poverty. The rich aren't indifferent to poverty; they create it, they maintain it.”
Anon

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“What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

“Truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does.”
Anon

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“Read the books they don't want you to. That's where the good stuff is.”
Levar Burton

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into anothere's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
Joyce Carol Oates

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“Some people are old at 18 & some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.”
Yoko Ono

“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.”
Bertrand Russell

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“Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
Carl Sagan

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
Neil Gaiman

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“There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood…what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break?
What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
L P Hartley

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“You cannot claim that a healthcare system in which 42% of patients lose their life savings within two years is a system that works. It is a moral outrage. We need medicare for all & we need it now.”
Bernie Sanders

“A book is not alive until it's read. Once read...it lives forever.”
David Reuben Aslin

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“You should not be afraid of someone who has a library of many books; you should fear someone who has only one book & he considers it sacred, but he has never read it,”
Friederich Nietzsche

“Why explain yourself when those who judge you see only through their own lens? Be silent, let them see.”
Rumi

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“The book to read is is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”
Harper Lee

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Joseph Addison

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“A kind heart,kind speech,& a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.”
Buddha



“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
Maxmilien Robespierre

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“A man with outward courage dares to die...a man with inner courage dares to live.”
Lao Tzu

“Love enables us to see things that cannot be seen without love. The eyes of compassion are also the eyes of understanding. Compassion is the sweet water that springs forth from the source of understanding. To practice looking deeply is the basic medicine for anger,hatred & fear.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Many civilisations have died because mankind was not wise enough. And the same thing will be true for ours. If we continue to consume like this, if we don't care about protecting this planet, we will allow it to be burned with global warming. Maybe seventy per cent of mankind will die. The ecosystem will be destroyed to a very large extent & we will need millions of years to start a new civilisation.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
Oscar Wilde

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“Yesterday is already gone. Tomorrow is not here yet. Today is the only day available to us; it is the most important day of our lives.”
Thich Nhat Hanh


“I have never yet been able to find one consideration, one argument, or suggestion in favour of man's right to participate in civil government which did not also equally apply to the right of woman.”
Frederick Douglass

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“The world is not divided between East & West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you & your govt is much bigger than the difference between you & me. And the difference between me & my govt. is much bigger than the difference between me & you.
And our govts are very much the same.”
Marjane Satrapi


“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, & the greatness whch does not bow before children.”
Khalil Gibran

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In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile to oneself, ensured health, happiness & longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love; you become your own best friend.
Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.”
Mantak Chia

“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, & tolerant with the weak & wrong. At sometime in ypur life, you will have been all of these.”
Gautama Buddha