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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,413 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,307 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,925 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,190 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,337 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
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"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,648 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,018 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,453 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,211 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, misfits, nonconformity, quo, rebels, status, think
6,818 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,112 people liked it

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
5,812 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

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"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. "
— Thomas Jefferson

79 people liked it

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
— Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer
184 people liked it

"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions."
— Claude Lévi-Strauss

tags: questions, science
80 people liked it

"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
— Hippocrates

tags: ignorance, knowledge, opinion, science
25 people liked it

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
— Galileo Galilei

tags: reasoning, science
39 people liked it

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
— Stephen W. Hawking

tags: inspirational, science
57 people liked it

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
— Marie Curie

tags: fear, life, science, understanding
118 people liked it

"We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are."
— Stephen Jay Gould (The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History)

tags: ecology, intelligence, life, science, stewardship
19 people liked it

"Nothing in Biology makes sense except in the light of Evolution"
— T.G. Dobzhansky

tags: science
15 people liked it

"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."
— Edwin Hubble

tags: science
24 people liked it

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
— Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations)

tags: science, superstition
21 people liked it

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: fact, ignorance, truth
1,155 people liked it

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth
799 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
751 people liked it

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
— Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth
271 people liked it

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
— Jim Morrison

tags: freedom, individuality, inspirational, mask, personality, revolution, truth
206 people liked it

"The more I see, the less I know for sure."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, life, perception, truth
340 people liked it

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm
218 people liked it

"There was never a bad peace or a good war."
— Benjamin Franklin

70 people liked it

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: liberty, security
542 people liked it

"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: humor
107 people liked it

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: beer
198 people liked it

"The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
— Benjamin Franklin

32 people liked it

"energy and persistence conquers all things"
— Benjamin Franklin

37 people liked it

"Well done is better than well said."
— Benjamin Franklin

95 people liked it

"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: books
1,358 people liked it

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion
296 people liked it

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
— Thomas Jefferson

64 people liked it

"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. "
— Thomas Jefferson

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"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: insperational, jefferson, quotes, thomas
66 people liked it

"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: banks, destruction, federal, financial, loans, money, philosophy, political, politics, power, science, society, violence, war
130 people liked it

"Information is the currency of democracy."
— Thomas Jefferson

49 people liked it

"Upon the altar of God I pledge eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man "
— Thomas Jefferson

24 people liked it

"Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not."
— Thomas Jefferson

19 people liked it

"Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: religion
35 people liked it

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