Quotations I like

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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, and indifference is an elegant name for ignorance. (G.K. Chesterton)

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It's a matter of taking side with the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

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People who say it can't be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. (George Bernard Shaw)

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There are people tying themselves into knots, trying to figure out whether or not bloggers are journalists. And the answer to that question is, it doesn't matter, because that's not the right question. Journalism was an answer to an even more important question, which is, how will society be informed? (Clay Shirky)

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It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends. (J.K. Rowling )
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. (G.B. Stern)
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When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. (Dr Wayne Dyer)
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Death Penalty: The question is not 'Who deserves to die', but 'Who deserves to kill'. (Susan Sarandon)
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I don't believe in failure, it's not failure if you enjoyed the process. (Oprah)
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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, ... who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Rooseveldt)
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We have to create an atmosphere where we can disagree without becoming disagreeable. (Barak Obama)
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Dating women is a lot more drama and dating men is a lot more bullshit. (Lesbian commiserating with Dan Savage on his podcast)
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Even if you're all thumbs and mess up everything you do, you'll be rewarded with a better understanding of the world around you. (Mark Frauenfelder)
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How can I know what I think before I hear what I say. (Graham Wallas)
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You learn courage by couraging. (Mary Daly)
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The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
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If at first you do succeed, try not to look too surprised.
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A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
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Find a meaningful need and fill it better than anyone else.
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I'll rather being hated for who I am than being loved for who I'm not.
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable colour to every object. (Kate Binge)
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If you believe you can't or you can - you're right.
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Luck is opportunity meeting preparation. (Oprah)
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Stop expecting all your opportunities to arrive on a silver platter, some arrive in tinfoil. (Khobi Ledwaba)
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You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights (Maya Angelou)
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You gotta explore the polar extremes to understand the middle.
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How come when we bring home a report card with two As and two Fs, our parents tell us to work on the Fs?
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. (R. Buckminster Fuller)
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Be the change you wish to see in the world.

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