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#1

“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
― Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, hope, philosophy

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#2

“You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

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“If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business, if there was any competition.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

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#4

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success

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#5

“The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens - finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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#6

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald

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#7

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings

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#8

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: lost-innocence, memories

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#9

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

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#10

“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer

tags: bhagavad-gita, death, destruction, nuclear-weapons

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#11

“notre personnalité sociale est une création de la pensée des autres.”
― Marcel Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu

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#12

“And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.”
― Clarice Lispector

tags: absurdism

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#13

“You're a bitter man," said Candide.
That's because I've lived," said Martin.”
― Voltaire, Candide

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#14

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

tags: crowds, madness

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#15

“Tyrannies are perpetuated by diffident men who do not possess the courage to act out their beliefs.”
― Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority

tags: action, courage, tyranny

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#16

“The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”
― Alberto Brandolini

tags: humor

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#17

“Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”
― The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

tags: the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty

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#18

“Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.”
― The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

tags: the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty

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#19

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion

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#20

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

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#21

“We need to start to talk about money in ways that dethrone it and make it subject to human ethics and standards of love and decency.”
― Joel Solomon, The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism

tags: impact-investing, investing, venture-capital

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#22

“When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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#23

“If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: beliefs, causes, character, interests, judgement, passionate, personality, reputation, soul, true-self, viewpoint

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#24

“Men argue. Nature acts.”
― Voltaire

tags: climate-change, man, nature

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#25

“I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.”
― Chief Joseph

tags: love, native-american-wisdom, non-violence, wisdom

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#26

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

tags: community, diversity, idic, tolerance

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#27

“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.”
― Gene Roddenberry

tags: differences, humanity, life, maturity, space-exploration, star-trek, tolerance, wisdom

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#28

“The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.”
― Gene Roddenberry

tags: gene-roddenberry, inspirational

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