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#1

“ I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant”
― Alan Greenspan

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#2

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: insanity, madness, nationalism, philosophy

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#3

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

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#4

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#5

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon

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#6

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

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#7

“Truth resists simplicity.”
― John Green

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#8

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
― Aristotle, Politics

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#9

“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”
― Adolf Hitler

tags: big-lie, propaganda, repetition

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#10

“The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.”
― Ward Churchill

tags: freedom, media, propaganda

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#11

“Nature does nothing uselessly.”
― Aristotle, Politics

tags: nature

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#12

“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination, propaganda

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#13

“Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”
― Aristotle, Politics

tags: ambition, injustice, money

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#14

“They who love in excess also hate in excess.”
― Aristotle, Politics

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#15

“and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
― Aristotle, Politics

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#16

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship

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#17

“Under every stone lurks a politician.”
― Aristophanes

tags: humor, politicians, politics

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#18

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: travel

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#19

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity

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#21

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: time

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#22

“The best fighter is never angry.”
― Lao Tzu

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#23

“To know ten thousand things, know one well”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

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#24

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

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#25

“Everything in this book may be wrong.”
― Richard Bach, Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul

tags: messiah-s-handbook, truth

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#26

“Happiness is a kind of activity of the soul; whereas the remaining good things are either merely indispensable conditions of happiness, or are of the nature of auxiliary means, and useful instrumentally.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

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#27

“The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#28

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder

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#29

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: intelligence, intelligent-action

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#30

“We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge.”
― Rutherford D. Rogers

tags: information-glut

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#31

“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: law, music, state

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