Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
-- Larry Wall

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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
-- Frederick Douglass (West India Emancipation (1857))

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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, and one by one.
-- Charles Mackay

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If the exploitation of others were all that mattered, evolution should never have got into the empathy business. But it did, and the political and economic elites had better grasp that in a hurry.
-- Frans de Waal (Primatologist)

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal

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The future ain't what it used to be.
-- Yogi Berra

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Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck

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Q: "I still don't get bitcoin?" A: Imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin.
-- Yolo Contendere (@theophite)

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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
-- Robert Byrne

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A lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history.
-- Hannah Arendt

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Shopping malls specialize in the strategic marketing of things people don't really need.
-- Jennifer Price

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up.
-- Mark Twain

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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

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It is not an act of intellect which makes people change themselves for the better but an act of the will. For intelligence without courage is as static as courage without intelligence is rash. It is intelligence with courage that results in the necessary act of the will we need in order to bring about constructive change in ourselves.
-- Sidney J. Harris

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill

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People in power are MUCH more comfortable with the idea of a young girl's potential than they are with a grown woman's equality.
-- Andi Zeisler (@andizeisler)

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It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
-- Anonymous

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell

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