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Cast off the shackles of this modern oppression and take back what is rightfully yours, because as William Shakespeare never wrote, ‘Life is but a bullring, and we are but matadors trying to dodge all the horns.’
MCMatthew Clayfield
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 2 : Transformed nonconformist
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Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
Napoleon1769–1821Speaking about troubles in the invasions of Russia (10 December 1812), as recorded by Abbé du Pradt, and quoted in History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, Vol. 3 (1842) …
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #124
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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Henrietta Temple (1837), Book 2, chapter 4
Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention (August 23, 1956)
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx1818–1883“Theses on Feuerbach” (1845), Thesis 11, Marx Engels Selected Works,(MESW), Volume I, p. 15
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- Philosophy
The best is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire1694–1778“La Bégueule” (Contes, 1772)
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve1670–1729Love for Love (1695)
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 68
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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 71.
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I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794Memoirs (1796), Vol. i. p. 117
Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter 30 (last lines).