It's been a really quotable month! --Me
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished fro truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. --Dan Kahneman
That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means because it doesn't mean anything. --Noam Chomsky
Be the light that darkness fears. --Unknown
They don't like it when your authenticity is louder than their facade. --Gina Carano
Love me or hate me; both are in my favor. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind. --William Shakespeare
The older I get, the more I realize that arguing on the basis of facts and logic only gets you labeled as someone who is out of step with the times, if not lacking in compassion. --Thomas Sowell
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't. --Anthony Bourdain
Ask not for lighter burdens, but for broader shoulders. --Unknown
We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld. --John McWhorter
The snake that cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. --Friedrich Nietzsche
No matter how hard the world pushes against me, there's something stronger - something better - pushing right back. --Albert Camus
Grow, or don't. But death is still coming. --Unknown
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. --Thomas Edison
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. --W. Somerset Maugham
Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor. --Alexis Carrel
Minds are like parachutes - they function only when they are open. --Thomas R. Dewar
Some will be attracted to my light. Others will fear it. I've decided to shine anyway. --Unknown
If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. --Joseph Campbell
Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it. --Confuscius
The greatest calamity that could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers. --Thomas Jefferson
Censorship turns us into children, whose eyes and ears are covered because the authorities know better. --Brendan O'Neill
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it. --Upton Sinclair
It's time to cancel the cancel culture before it kills our culture. --Piers Morgan
An individualist says: "I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave." --Ayn Rand
The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them. --Turkish proverb
If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last. --President Ronald Reagan
Decision is often the difference between greatness and mediocrity. In every man's life there comes a time when he must search for a cause, a work, and ideal to which he can give himself. Whether he says 'Yes' or 'No' to the challenge will determine his future. --Wilferd Peterson
No corporation should be so big and powerful that it can override the voice of the people. --Senator Josh Hawley
I like old bookstores, the smell of coffee brewing, rainy day naps, farmhouse porches, and sunsets. I like the sweet simple things that remind me that life doesn't have to be complicated to be beautiful. --Brooke Hampton
May the shells of the shore remind you that treasures arrive everyday in the form of simple things. --Sandy Gingras
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. --Thomas Jefferson
Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make life, death, and the vast forever one grand, sweet song. --Charles Kingsley
A hero who does not have many reasons to solve a problem will gradually become uninteresting. --Donald Maass
Above all things - read. --Ngaio Marsh
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