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“Sometimes you cannot hear me, it's because sometimes I'm in parentheses.”

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“I tried to hang myself with bungie cords. I kept almost dying.”

“In school they told me "Practice makes perfect." And then they told me "Nobody's perfect," so then I stopped practicing.”

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— Pablo Picasso

Art1881–1973

#Human Nature

"I have read the Liberal programme. They talk of cooperation between employer and employed. That is not the problem. There is no use in cooperating when there is no work to be done. There is no use in …"

— F. E. Smith

Politics1872–1930

#time

"The main enemy of the people is the state. The state does everything it can do to get more and more control over people’s lives and access to more of their data while cutting down on personal freedom …"

— Gary McKinnon

1963

#freedom

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— George Orwell

performing arts1903–1950

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