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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

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#everything #people #time

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

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

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

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. ↗

— Thomas Hewitt Key

#mind #never

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play. ↗

— Jason Kidd

#being #big #enjoys #involved #key

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#before #especially #features #geographic #give