Well. this is Part 2. So we’re up to.. about 165? another 200 good ones.. will be hard to find. But.. find them we will! Someday… I guess there is a bit of a theme here. A lot of quotes here are mostly about dumping out the Garbage we’ve all been taught. And a little more diversity, I guess.

1. There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before – Willa Cather
2. We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie – Michael Ondaatje
3. My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right – Ashleigh Brilliant.
4. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults – Peter De Vries
5. A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury – John S. Mill
6. Those who teach, must never cease to learn – John Cotton Dana
7. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it. Clarence Darrow
8. To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness – John Dewey
9. I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them. – Charles Bukowski
10. Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear. – William James
11. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. – William James
12. Humans seldom have created anything of lasting value unless they were tired or hurting. – Jon Huntsman Sr.
13. Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing – Nassim Taleb
14. The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary – Nassim Taleb
15. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power – PJ O’Rourke
16. 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 – GB Shaw
17. I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve – Albert Schweitzer
18. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. – Bertrand Russell
19. What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so. – Mark Twain?
20. All cruelty springs from weakness – Seneca
21. The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
22. Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations – J William Fulbright
23. We’re a nation of Adult children of alcoholics. We don’t get mad at the people who are inflicting the pain in this country. We get mad at the people who are pointing it out.- Jimmy Dore.
24. But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do? – John Maynard Keynes
25. It’s amazing how people can change behind closed doors – Susan Forward
26. it is the essence of morality to meditate on one’s own wrongdoing, to try to find ways to make up for it and to be resolved not to repeat it – Dan Kovalik
27. The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. WALPOLE?
28. He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being – Stanislav Grof
29. We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented – Andrew Niccol
30. Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes – William GIBSON
31. To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. – Will Durant
32. If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep loving the same sad small life.- Jean Houston
33. The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it – John Ruskin
34. There is never anything to change but our own perspective – Karen Casey
35. We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter -Denis Diderot
36. It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything – Chuck Palahniuk
37. You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. – Abbie Hoffman
38. Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret. – R. SHECKLEY
39. All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. – James Thurber
40. The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand. – William Stafford
41. What we do not understand we have no right to judge – Henri-Frederic Amiel.
42. Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now? – Richard Carlson
43. A problem well stated is a problem half solved. – Charles Kettering.
44. “If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” – Charles Darwin
45. The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. – Michael Porter
46. “Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.” – Henry Miller
47. No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. – Peter Drucker
48. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation. – Pearl Buck
49. Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. – Thomas Szasz
50. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. – Thomas Szasz
51. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing – Sergei Dovlatov
52. Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t you think? – Frank Baum
53. The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself – Patrick McGoohan
54. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. – Ram Dass
55. Anxiety, trauma and crisis are necessary catalysts to stimulate self-consciousness. – Rollo Tomassi
56. Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. – Petrarch
57. You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. – Cormac McCarthy
58. “Think of denial as an acronym for Don’t Even Notice I Am Lying” – Debbie Ford.
59. “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” – Charles Bukowski
60. Don’t give advice, it will come back and bite you in the ass.. – Ellen DeGeneres
61. although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what “he” thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally – that is, for himself – which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts – Erich Fromm
62. America’s always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way – Charles P Pierce
63. A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say – Italo Calvino
64. Happiness is not easy to find. It’s very difficult to find it in yourself — and impossible to find anywhere else… (Found this attributed to at least 3 different authors.. so let’s just say UNKNOWN)
65. Natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial – GARRETT HARDIN
66. When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. – Desmond Tutu
67. People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results – Michael Burry (movie, Big Short)
68. A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point. -Leon Festinger
69. Every man dies, not every man truly lives. – Sonny Barger
70. Sex is like air; it’s not important unless you aren’t getting any. – John Callahan
71. “He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed…” TE Lawrence.
72. The first duty of a man is to think for himself – Jose Marti
73. Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect. – Oswald Spengler
74. An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong. – Russell Baker
75. Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. – Alex Haley.
76. If people cannot rise to the level of applying to ourselves the same standards we apply to others they have no right to talk about right and wrong. – Noam Chomsky
77. I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. – Bill Maher
78. Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies – Don Miguel Ruiz
79. Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck – Iris Murdoch
80. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal – Aristotle.
81. The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. – Kurt Cobain
82. The more things change, the more they are the same – Alphonse Karr
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