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#1

“I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder: it was before Photography that men had the most to say about the vision of the double. Heautoscopy was compared with an hallucinosis; for centuries this was a great mythic theme.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

tags: duplicity, looking, photography

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#2

“The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.”
― Boris Pasternak

tags: duplicity, health, life-and-living

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#3

“If suddenly the whole workers of the whole world disappear then the whole world will stop! Let us all realise this and let us celebrate the workers - these great people who make our world move!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: 1-may, international-labor-day, labor, labor-day, labor-day-quotes, labor-quotes, may-day, may-day-quotations, may-day-quotes, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes

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#4

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

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#5

“Money is a very pleasant thing, Willie, and I think you can trade almost anything for it wisely except the work you really want to do. If you sell out your time for a comfortable life, and give up your natural work, I think you lose the exchange. There remains an inner uneasiness that spoils the comforts.”
― Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny

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#6

“Base words are uttered only by the base
And can for such at once be understood;
But noble platitudes — ah, there's a case
Where the most careful scrutiny is needed
To tell a voice that's genuinely good
From one that's base but merely has succeeded.”
― W.H. Auden, Collected Poems

tags: baseness, embroidery, meaning, platitudes, poetry, skill, talent, writing

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#7

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

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#8

“The straight word never runs away from the crooked word.”
― Gabriel Okara, The Voice

tags: honour, integrity, truth

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#9

“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: abortion, obvious, right-to-life

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#10

“For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands”
― Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems

tags: dependability, help, love, sisters

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#11

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#12

“It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.”
― Henri-Frédéric Amiel

tags: character, human, inspirational, life, living, wisdom

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#13

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, power, women, women-s-rights

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#14

“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: alcohol, storytelling, truth, wine

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#15

“Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: angry-men, cheaters, close-minded, confused, fake, fake-christians, false, false-witness, fearful, hidden-motives, history, honesty, inattention, insecure, insecure-women, jealous-women, liars, pretending, purity, relationships, scared, the-past, truth

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#16

“Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: character, life, president, ronald-reagan

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#17

“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Yasalar Üzerine

tags: commandments, essential, justice, law, reason, society

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#18

“Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous act, are still at the sideways of delusion and conquer.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

tags: abstract, arbitrary, conquer, default, delusion, evil, good, humans, morality, provoke

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#19

“In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

tags: delusion, perception

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#20

“We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: deficit-spending, fiscal-policy, national-debt, political-philosophy, scope-of-government

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#21

“And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: deficit-spending, fiscal-policy, national-debt, political-philosophy

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#22

“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

tags: art, beauty, books, chaos, life, music, painting, writing

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#23

“Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: christmas, secular, separation-of-church-and-state

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#24

“There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

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#25

“Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: accomplishments, bulb, burn, burn-out, defeat, emphasis, fail, failure, failures, focus, light, lightbulb, scrutinize, scrutiny, spotlight, success, successes, victory

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#26

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#27

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

tags: dishonesty, good-name, libel, reputation, shakespeare, slander, society, standing, theft, value, values

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#28

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others

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#29

“...The happy Warrior... is he... who, doomed to go in company with pain, and fear, and bloodshed, miserable train turns his necessity to glorious gain; in face of these doth exercise a power which is our human nature's highest dower: controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves of their bad influence, and their good receives: by objects, which might force the soul to abate her feeling, rendered more compassionate; is placable because occasions rise so often that demand such sacrifice; more skillful in self-knowledge, even more pure, as tempted more; more able to endure, as more exposed to suffering and distress; thence, also, more alive to tenderness.”
― William Wordsworth, Character of the Happy Warrior

tags: character, empathy, endure, opposition, sacrifice, self-mastery, strength-of-character, trials, will

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#30

“ERNEST FRIEDLANDER: Be quiet! Be quiet!

LEO MERCURÉ: Why should we be quiet? You’re making enough row to blast the roof off! Why should you have the monopoly of noise? Why should your pompous moral pretensions be allowed to hurdle across the city without any competition? We’ve all got lungs. Let’s use them! Let’s shriek like mad! Let’s enjoy ourselves!”
― Noël Coward, Design for Living

tags: babbitt, bohemianism, bourgeois-society, conventionalism, enjoy-life, enjoyment, pomposity, pompous, pretensions, unconventional, unconventionality

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