“You will think a lot less about what people think of you when you realise how seldom they do.”
– David Foster Wallace
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All wars – François Fénelon
“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers”
– François Fénelon
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I contain multitudes
“I contradict myself? Very well then; I am large, I contain multitudes.”
– Walt Whitman
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Write drunk – Hemingway
“Write drunk; edit sober.”
– Hemingway
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Reality is a Mirror – Unknown
“Reality is a Mirror. When we look upon something, we see it through preconceptions, memories, and opinions we have associated with the object. So, as we look upon the world, we see more of ourselves than the objects that inhabit the world.”
– Unknown
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Time – Unknown
“Time doesn’t truly exist. We all live in the current moment and we forever will. The past is just ghosts and the future only fantasies. Tomorrow will never come.”
– Unknown
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Patriotism – George Bernard Shaw
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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Underestimated – Jean Kerr
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then you may have underestimated the gravity of the situation.”
– Jean Kerr
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You are a human being first
“You are a human being first. Before race, country or religion.”
– Unknown
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Believe nothing – Buddha
“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it, or because it is tradition, or because you yourself have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for him. But whatever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings, believe and cling to that doctrine, and take it as your guide.”
– Buddha
“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
– Martin Luther King
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Monopoly – Steven Wright
“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.”
– Steven Wright
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Bottom – Michel de Montaigne
“Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.”
– Michel de Montaigne
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Think – HL Mencken
“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.”
– HL Mencken
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Universe – Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson