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January 9, 2021 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

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January 7, 2021 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

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January 5, 2021January 5, 2021 / Momus Najmi / 1 Comment

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

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January 4, 2021 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

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January 3, 2021January 3, 2021 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Aldous Huxley

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December 22, 2020December 22, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

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December 21, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”

Bernard M. Baruch

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December 20, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

― Albert Einstein

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November 30, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

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November 22, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Christopher Hitchens

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November 19, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

The light dove cleaving in free flight the thin air, whose resistance it feels, might imagine that her movements would be far more free and rapid in airless space.

Immanuel Kant

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November 2, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

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October 29, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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October 26, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

George Orwell

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October 24, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

Christopher Hitchens

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October 22, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.

William Faulkner

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October 21, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

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October 20, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

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September 17, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

John F. Kennedy

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August 28, 2020 / Momus Najmi / Leave a comment

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Franz Kafa

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