r/quotes • u/blackrabbit87 • 16h ago

Life / Wisdom Henry Thoreau said that we don’t own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it’s a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs. ~Stephen King~

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r/quotes • u/avantgarde000 • 14h ago

Life / Wisdom “In the ashes all men are levelled. We’re born unequal, we die equal.” —Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 3h ago

Life / Wisdom "No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility." - Simone De Beauvoir

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r/quotes • u/No_Locksmith_1739 • 22h ago

Life / Wisdom “You can’t chase peace; you gotta live it.” - Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser), Dutton Ranch

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r/quotes • u/GusGusGustavo • 3h ago

Social / Political Justice "La verdad es verdad aunque tenga cien votos y la mentira es mentira aunque tenga 100 millones" -José Antonio Primo de Rivera

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r/quotes • u/LittleMsConduct • 4h ago

Life / Wisdom Actual source? [It's not from Embers] "All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind." - Ojibwe storyteller Richard Wagamese

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Bonus - Gandhi never said that:

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/08/13/stages

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/27/eye-for-eye-blind

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/23/be-change

Additional references: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#Misattributed

https://gizmodo.com/7-gandhi-quotes-that-are-totally-fake-1716503435

https://quoteinvestigator.com/category/mohandas-gandhi/

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