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quotes

• "In my opinion, the most powerful weapon you have is the weapon of truth and justice, and you should never create a situation where you can be silenced on the grounds of feelings and emotions." -- Norman Gary Finkelstein
• "I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use⁠—silence, exile and cunning." -- Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• "Better to admit you walked through the wrong door than spend your life in the wrong room."
  • I was not able to find information about the quote's original source. Feel free to contact me if you have more information.
• "It is better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (source 1) (source 2)
  • "Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company." (source)
• "I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." -- Henry David Thoreau
• "Time and tide wait for no man." (source 1) (source 2)
  • "For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde,
    Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde." (source)
• "What you do is all that matters. Philosophy is irrelevant except for the actions that result from it, and study is a poor subsitute [sic] for curiosity." -- Keoni Gandall
• "Facts don't care about your feelings." -- Benjamin Aaron Shapiro
• "Every joke is a tiny revelation."
  • This is my initial misreading of George Orwell's quote "Every joke is a tiny revolution." I prefer this misreading to the original quote, and the meaning behind the misreading is similar to "there's a grain of truth in every joke."
• "You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take." -- attributed to Wayne Gretzky in an interview with Bob McKenzie on the January 16, 1983 edition of The Hockey News (source 1) (source 2)
  • I was not able to confirm the existence of a January 16, 1983 edition of The Hockey News. The closest edition that I found was January 14, 1983. (archived 1983 editions) Feel free to contact me if you have more information.
  • "My dad [Walter Gretzky] says 100 percent of the shots you don't take don't go in" -- Wayne Gretzky (source 1) (source 2)
• "Let me continue a stranger—especially to you. Those who have much to give fulfil themselves only in total loneliness." -- Eman in Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde "Wole" Soyinka's The Strong Breed
  • Alternative version with slightly different wording: "Let me continue a stranger—especially to you. Those who have much to give fulfil themselves only when they do so in total loneliness." -- Eman in Wole Soyinka's The Strong Breed
• "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." -- Ecclesiastes 1:18 (KJV)
• "Before proceeding, let me say I think I have no prejudice against the Southern people. They are just what we would be in their situation. If slavery did not now exist amongst them, they would not introduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up. This I believe of the masses north and south." -- Abraham Lincoln
• "If at first you don’t succeed,
  Try, try again" -- Thomas Haig Palmer
• "I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow
  I did not breed or perfect the seeds.
  
  I do not make any of my own clothing.
  
  I speak a language I did not invent or refine.
  
  I did not discover the mathematics I use.
  
  I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive
  of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.
  
  I am moved by music I did not create myself.
  
  When I needed medical attention, I was helpless
  to help myself survive.
  
  I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor,
  object oriented programming, or most of the technology
  I work with.
  
  I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am
  totally dependent on them for my life and well being." -- Steven Paul Jobs

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• One of my favorite images: Lunch atop a Skyscraper (September 20, 1932)
• Image of John Maxwell Coetzee gazing into a mirror (taken by Edwina Pickles for The Sydney Morning Herald on January 6, 2003):
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• "There was a story in my days about a physical chemist who was asked to explain some effect, illustrated by a poster on the wall. He did that, after which someone noticed that the poster was hanging upside down, so the effect appeared reversed in sign. Undaunted, the guy immediately explained it the other way around, just as convincingly as he did the first time." -- Ivan Neretin