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    Kristin Hannah
    “If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
    ― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
    tags: discovery, discovery-of-oneself, love, love-quotes, self-discovery, war
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom
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    Zoulfa Katouh
    “Bury me before I bury you" I did.”
    ― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
    tags: sad
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    Zoulfa Katouh
    “Death is an excellent teacher.”
    ― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
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    Zoulfa Katouh
    “When I die, I'm going to tell God everything.”
    ― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
    tags: devastating, poignant
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46383 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
    41939 likes

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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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    Salman Rushdie
    “From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
    tags: dogma, extremism, fanaticism, god, inhumanity, justification, religion, zealotry
    660 likes

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    Salman Rushdie
    “Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
    tags: face, honesty, mask, people
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    Salman Rushdie
    “Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
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    Salman Rushdie
    “Question: What is the opposite of faith?

    Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief.

    Doubt.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
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    Ian Fleming
    “You only live twice:
    Once when you are born
    And once when you look death in the face”
    ― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
    tags: death, haiku, james-bond, philosophy, poetry
    2807 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
    10698 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4072 likes

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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
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    John Steinbeck
    “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: conflict, politics, war
    2062 likes

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  • #23
    Howard Zinn
    “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: nationalism, patriotism, war
    1815 likes



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