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🇺🇸Mark Twain

Literature

1835–1910

"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of oratory."

"[On Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him."

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🇫🇷Albert Camus

Literature

continental philosophy

1913–1960

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power."

"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."

"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"

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🇺🇸Martin Luther King Jr.

Social Activism

civil rights movement

1929–1968

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend."

"Roughly speaking, states are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power..."

"Thus fought the heroes, tranquil their admirable hearts, violent their swords, resigned to kill and to die."

"When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it."

"If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them."

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🇺🇸Gore Vidal

Literature

postmodern literature

1925–2012

"You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country."

"Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee."

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🇨🇴Gabriel García Márquez

Literature

magic realism

1927–2014

"But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love."

"The year 2000: April 43rd.—To-day is a day of splendid triumph. Spain has a king; he has been found, and I am he."

"To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act."

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature

1918–2008

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."

"There is a kind of synergy between the different forms of work, you’ll learn things from one sort of work that will have tremendous application in another. They all tend to pull each other forward."

"'My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'."

"The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it."

"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."

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"The moment you meet a person of another religion whom you consider to be as good, as intelligent, and as religious as you are, you will never be the same."

"But that is what life is like, uncertain, screwed at times but still fun."

"“I'm not going to say it was 'only' a hundred thousand Jews that were killed in Auschwitzs because even if one Jew is murdered that's a crime."

"Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest."

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🇬🇧C. Northcote Parkinson

Literature

1909–1993

"It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow."

"This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched."

"We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same."

"Putin must be stopped. And sometimes only guns can stop guns."

"Anyone who took their Catholic faith seriously stood alongside the Jews in mutual, mortal conflict with Hitler."

"Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers."

"It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it."

".. the overturning of the old world of arts will be etched across your 'palms'"

"We are very aware that we are in the middle of a war. But we are still continuing our calm and monotonous lives."

"We had absolute consciousness that it was a historic moment... No struggle for what you believe in is ever futile."

"One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods."

"They start with pulling down and abusing statues; they will end by doing this to people."

"O, my Russia! O, wife! The long road is clear to us to the point of pain. Our road – like a Tatar arrow of ancient will has pierced our breast."

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