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    Margaret Atwood
    “We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
    We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: freedom, stories
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature
    tags: readers-and-writers
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature
    tags: writing
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    John Steinbeck
    “When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: coming-of-age, fall-of-the-gods, growing-up, parents
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    Elisabeth Hewer
    “Look to your kingdoms—
    I am coming for them all.”
    ― Elisabeth Hewer, Wishing for Birds
    tags: love-letters-from-helen-of-troy, poetry
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    Woody Allen
    “There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: ethics
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    Robert A. Caro
    “But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
    ― Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power
    tags: human-nature, power
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    Robert A. Caro
    “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will”;”
    ― Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
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    Robert A. Caro
    “Power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals.”
    ― Robert Caro
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    Robert A. Caro
    “People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy”
    ― Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
    tags: compromise, dependence, humility, leadership
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, death, poetry, women
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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lotr, war
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4072 likes

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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
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    Markus Zusak
    “A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war
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  • #24
    “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”
    ― Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich
    tags: martyrdom, misattributed-to-albert-camus, pacifism, principles, war
    2496 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
    tags: war
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
    1984 likes

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    John Steinbeck
    “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: conflict, politics, war
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    Howard Zinn
    “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: nationalism, patriotism, war
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  • #29
    “War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: misattributed-bernard-shaw, misattributed-bertrand-russell, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: business, strategy, war
    1937 likes



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