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“Who controls the past . . . controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell
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“1984”
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1949
“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
“Thus Spoke Zarathustra”
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1891
“She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of a lack of knowledge.”
Maya Angelou
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“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
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1969
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
John Steinbeck
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“East of Eden”
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1952
“Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.”
Bruce Lee
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“Tao of Jeet Kune Do”
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1975
“Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“The Social Contract”
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1762
“When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.”
G. K. Chesterton
,
“What's Wrong with the World”
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1910
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde
,
“The Soul of Man under Socialism”
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1891
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
William Shakespeare
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“Twelfth Night”
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1623
“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Self-Reliance”
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1841
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
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16 April 1963
“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.”
Louisa May Alcott
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“Little Women”
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1868
“The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.”
John Stuart Mill
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“The Subjection of Women”
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1869
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
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“The Fellowship of the Ring”
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1954
“Violence . . . is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
Isaac Asimov
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“Foundation”
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1951
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“Anna Karenina”
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1877
“A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“The Idiot”
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1874
“You never understand anybody that loves you.”
Ernest Hemingway
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“Islands in the Stream”
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1970
“Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know.”
Lao Tzu
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“Tao Te Ching”
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4th century BC
“People can tell you to shut up, but they can't keep you from having an opinion.”
Anne Frank
,
“The Diary of a Young Girl”
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1947
