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Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#dissidents #forever #want

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#deliberate #dishonest #enemy #great #great enemy

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#danger #defending #few #freedom #generations

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ↗

— William Kennedy

#cry #ego #empty #literature #music

The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#enemy #his #main #opposing #own

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet. ↗

— Mathieu Kerekou

#belonging #comforted #community #free #free nations

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#being #carefully #divorced #hit #left

I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families. ↗

— Steve Kerr

#everywhere #families #goals #happiness #health

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#stated #well

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#failures #his #inventor #once #practice