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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

"I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake."

"When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers."

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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 people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs."

"He has never left the world, but for 2,000 years has waited and planned for this immediate future time, training His disciples, and preparing Himself for the awesome task which awaits Him..."

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🇺🇸Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Politics

b. 1989

"If we are only organizing for elections, we are not going to win the world that we need...No one politician is the answer. No one president is the answer. You are the answer, mass movements are the answer."

"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."

"That doesn’t mean there’s not still a lot of pain and there won’t be pain for a while, but that basically was, we’ve now put out rules to get back to work. Trump’s now back in charge. It’s not the doctors."

"Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks other people have none either is the secret of the failure that lies in wait for him somewhere on the way of Life."

"If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time."

"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success."

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Julius Fučík (journalist)

Journalism

1903–1943

"Humans, I have loved you all. Be vigilant!"

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🇵🇱Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Politics

b. 1942

"The average intelligence quotient of Australian aborigines is more or less equal to a child with Down syndrome, and no one thinks to do abortions on Aborigines."

🇺🇸James Russell Lowell

Literature

1819–1891

"Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many."

"We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."

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🇺🇸William Randolph Hearst

Politics

1863–1951

"Guide to the William Randolph Hearst Papers at The Bancroft Library"

"Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being.. every other impression becomes, for him, an inner expression."

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🇺🇸Charles Taze Russell

Politics

Bible Student movement

1852–1916

"We claim no infallibility for our presentations."

🇺🇸William Jennings Bryan

Politics

1860–1925

"I can make affirmation; I can say "So help me God, I will tell the truth."

"To Freud's confusion on what do women want, I would say we want to dismantle a racist and misogynist heteronormative patriarchy that sucks the life out of women."

"There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice, that does not live by secrecy."

"Literature has had little to say of the labourer; and this, not that his class is lacking in interest, in poetry, in romance, but simply because those sections of society to which writers belong know nothing about him."

"It is only when our consciences become tangled that the truth begins to hurt."

"Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable."

"There is a reality — so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography."

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🇺🇸Michael Schmidt (poet)

Literature

b. 1947

"Poetry is a process, a form of discovery, which if it serves a cause, transcends it."

"The tame, the domesticated, try to monopolize the word freedom; they'd like to apply it to their own condition. They apply the word "wild" to the free."

"The same Jewry now is seeking to smirch Germany's renaissance."

"My position has always been that there's two types of people opposed to pornography: those who don't know what they're talking about, and those who don't know what they're missing."

"We never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it."

"If you haven't done it twice, you haven't done it."

"Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast."

"Ludwig Tieck's Works at German Wikisource"

"She once told me that because I am lighter-skinned than her I would be treated better, and then the divorce from my father, I think she felt betrayed by whiteness in a certain kind of way, and I represent that whiteness."

"The worshipful fader and first foundeur and enbelissher of ornate eloquence in our Englissh. I mene Maister Geffrey Chaucer."

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