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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. ↗

— Richard Perle

#control #dictatorships #exert #external #internal

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ↗

— Robert Frost

#half #keep #nothing #other #people

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#exclamation #joke #laughing #like #out

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#give #give me #love #me #money

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#changing #changing the world #everyone #himself #thinks

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#burn #culture #destroy #get #just

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? ↗

— Buddha

#good #holy #however #many #read

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#accepts #chaos #i #me #sure

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#afford #blessings #friends #old #old friends