"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives." ~ Robert A. Heinlein. (quotehd.com)

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"Try to live together peacefully..." George Carlin (i.imgtc.com)

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"We are buried beneath the weight of information... We are monkeys with money and guns" Tom Waits (i.imgtc.com)

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“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.” ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (relatably.com)

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"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer (mottocosmos.com)

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"If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power" P.J.O'Rourke (i.imgtc.com)

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"I love libraries..." Aaron Swartz (i.imgtc.com)

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"Logic is the sword by which we slay ancient superstitions. But lo, the heart has its own truths to teach us." ~ Hannah Montana, Season 2, Episode 4 - As a pre-titles opening quote at 1m 15s in the Holmes And Watson (2018) movie. (m.media-amazon.com)

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"Governments all over the world fight against the herb because they know if everyone smoked herb, most naturally, people are going to communicate much better together... But if you drink the rum, it keeps ya down, it breaks you down, makes you easy to control." Bob Marley (youtube.com)

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"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." ~ Søren Kierkegaard (indybay.org)

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"This country was built on gangs... republicans, democrats, the police department, the FBI, the CIA..." Tupac Shakur (i.imgtc.com)

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"We are alive in amazing times. Delicate hearts. Diabolical minds. Revelations, hatred, love and war. More and more and more and more, and more of less than ever before. It's just too much more for your mind to absorb" Mos Def (i.imgtc.com)

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"The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, 30 second sound bites, lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." (i.imgtc.com)

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"Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it." George Bernard Shaw (pictify.saatchigallery.com)

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"Innumerable suns exist. Innumerable earths revolve around these. Living beings inhabit these worlds." Giordano Bruno 1548-1600 Burned at the stake for heresy (i.imgtc.com)

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"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~ George Orwell (pbs.twimg.com)

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“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte (cdn.geckoandfly.com)

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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." - CS Lewis (full quote inside) (self.quotes)

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"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, day and night, to make you like everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." E.E.Cummings (i.imgtc.com)

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"A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense, not to himself." ~ Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard (66.media.tumblr.com)

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“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” Stephen King (self.quotes)

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Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (i.pinimg.com)

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In one hundred years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching remedial English in college. --Joseph Sobran /tweet (self.quotes)

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“National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars." (i.imgtc.com)

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"Possessions make you rich?" Bob Marley (gfycat.com)

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