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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell

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"It’s easy to be a communist in a free country. But try being free in a communist country." - Aubrey Huff

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"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down." Frederick Douglass

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If Freedom of Speech is Taken Away, then Dumb and Silent we may be led, like Sheep to the Slaughter - George Washington

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"If you want help, help yourself -- people like to see that." - Chris Rock

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"To anger a conservative lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth." Teddy Roosevelt

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“One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans—anything except reason.” - Thomas Sowell

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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubt, while the stupid people are full of confidence.” -Bertrand Russell

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"Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days." - Thomas Sowell

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"The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught." - Richard Feynman

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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire

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"Getting rid of capitalist 'exploiters' in Communist countries did not raise the living standards of workers, even to levels common in many capitalist countries, where workers were presumably still being exploited, as Marxists conceived the term." - Thomas Sowell

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"The students won't cheat in exams if they value their learning more than we value their grades." - Richard Feynman

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"Never tell your problems to everyone. 80% don't care and the other 20% are glad you have them" - Pablo Escobar

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"America is the only country with a media that refuses to analyze the news and draw conclusions. There is no memory, no analysis, no context, no conclusions, no opinions, no humanity at all. People are abandoning Big Media because it sucks" - Aaron Swartz

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“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” ― George Bernard Shaw

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"..every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day, minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." - George Orwell - 1984

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"Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies." - Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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Blexit

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"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published ..." Marcia Angell

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A Society That Has More Justice Is A Society That Needs Less Charity - Ralph Nader

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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.“ Isaac Asimov

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"Our greatest struggle would come in 2010 as we tried to bring the 1st Amendment to the United States” Julian Assange

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"Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking. They want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation." - George Carlin

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"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito in the room." - Dalai Lama

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“Unlike CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, AP, New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian... Wikileaks has never had to retract a published story because of false information.” Julian Assange

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“Political correctness has grown to become the unhappiest religion in the world." Nick Cave

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Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he's supposed to be. - Duncan Trussel

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1999: there are millions of websites all hyperlinked together. 2019: there are four websites, each filled with screenshots of the other three. @badnetworker

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"The problem isn't a lack of money, food, water or land. The problem is that you've given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths..." Bill Hicks

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"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." - John Stuart Mill

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Here’s James Woods from Twitter yesterday: “This much is certain after all this rioting: in two weeks we’re either going to have a shitload of sick Democrats, or we’re going to realize COVID-19 was not what Democrats said it was.”

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"With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge -- we'll make it a thing of the past." - Aaron Swartz

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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X

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"Biden, to me, is like taking a flashlight with a dying battery and going for a long walk in the woods." - Joe Rogan

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"The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them." - Julius Nyerere

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"I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds." John F. Kennedy

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What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them? ― Andrew P. Napolitano

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“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” ― Thomas Jefferson

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“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.“ Thomas Sowell

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If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can and will hire soldiers to stand over him compel him to submit to its arbitrary will and kill him if he resists. - Lysander Spooner

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"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." Mark Twain

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"No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free... You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.” Robert A. Heinlein

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"It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture..." Aaron Swartz

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A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted. Niccolo Machiavelli

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"I started reading ... how the educational system was developed, and alternatives to it, and ways that people could actually learn things instead of just regurgitating facts that teachers told them; and that kind of led me down this path of questioning things...." - Aaron Swartz

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"Goyim (non-jews) were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel." - Ovadia Yosef, Israeli rabbi

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"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" — Albert Camus

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"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today." -- Thomas Sowell

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"The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism." - Al Goldstein

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"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity." - William S. Burroughs

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In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act. — George Orwell

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"It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth." Alexis de Tocqueville

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“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” Mark Twain

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"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.

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"I love it when people try to dismiss me or anybody as a Conspiracy Theorist, actually it's a tremendous compliment, because what they're actually saying is: We haven't done the research, we don't know, and actually it's much more comfortable for us not to know, so please don't tell us." Ian Crane

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“You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.” ― Banksy

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"Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, and still call yourself Pro-Life" John Fugelsang

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“I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.” George Carlin

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"I don't want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers." - John D. Rockefeller

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" The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. " ~ Charles Bukowski, sort of

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"Vote all you want ... the secret government won’t change." Ron Paul

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Milton Friedman: "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

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"I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet. If you're wondering what I believe our purpose on this planet is, I'll give you a hint... it has to do with Creating and Sharing." Bill Hicks

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"Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense..." - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill [970x1000]

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"I would have never agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in '47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo." Harry Truman, 1961

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"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." -Winston Churchill

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"Watching the news is the mental equivalent of smoking cigarettes." Ed Latimore

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"Bipartisan Usually Means That A Larger than Usual Deception Is Being Carried Out" --George Carlin

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"We do not talk. We bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines, and digests." ~ Henry Miller, 1945

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"Be who you are - and say what you feel - because those who mind - don't matter and those - who matter don't mind - Dr Seuss

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"We will know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false" - William Casey CIA Director 1981

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"An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings." ~ Salman Rushdie

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"Politics is just the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex." - Frank Zappa

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“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war” - Martin Luther King Jr

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“Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again.” - Josiah Stamp

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" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. " ~ Plato, sort of.

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"Poor Kids Are Just as Bright as White Kids" - Joe Biden

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear - George Orwell

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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

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"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching" - C.S. Lewis

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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. George R.R. Martin

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Long term effects of too much information

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"Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused." - Aaron Swartz

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"The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites, lowest common denominator programming... but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." -Carl Sagan

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"People willing to trade their freedom for security will receive neither." Benjamin Franklin

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"Innumerable suns exist. Innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds." Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) Burned At The Stake For Heresy

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" An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. " ~ Orlando Aloysius Battista

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Looking at life from a different perspective makes you realise that it’s not the deer that is crossing the road, rather it’s the road that is crossing the forest. Muhammad Ali

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“ I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me. ” ~ George Carlin.

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You never realize how much you use the internet until you go through your search history for 20 minutes looking for something from yesterday. @rShowerThoughts

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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

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#Netflix aka #Pedoflix has lost over $9 billion in market value since the #CancelNetflix hashtag went viral over the show "Cuties" which depicts young girls, age 11 being sexualized among other things. Good. @alexpoucher

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“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” - Howard Zinn

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"Culture is not your friend..." - Terence McKenna

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"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power." - Dwight D Eisenhower

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Tattoos should actually make you more employable because it shows you can sit in place for hours while tiny needles are jammed into your skin and that’s what every corporate meeting I’ve ever been in has felt like. @bananabeltbetty

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"Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it. I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, "oh! wait a minute - I was wrong" I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you." Lemmy

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"If it was conventional wisdom that a bunch of unelected bankers looking out for rich people were the reason everyone was out of work, politicians would be forced to explain to angry voters why we had this crazy system and might actually consider doing something about it." - Aaron Swartz

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"Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality check..." Terry Pratchett

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