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"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humour
2,075 people liked it

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: adams, douglas
272 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
3,046 people liked it

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: curiosity, women
1,652 people liked it

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: family, friends, parties, social
1,002 people liked it

"As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight."
— P.G. Wodehouse

tags: death, depression, humor, undertakers
12 people liked it

"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views."
— Tom Baker

tags: doctor-who
19 people liked it

"Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy."
— Robert Anton Wilson

8 people liked it

"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

21 people liked it

" It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
— Voltaire

61 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
8,276 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
6,537 people liked it

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
3,043 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,651 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,656 people liked it

"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books
1,377 people liked it

"I guess there are never enough books."
— John Steinbeck

tags: books
66 people liked it

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
— Saul Bellow

tags: intelligence
23 people liked it

"Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?"
— Shaun Tan

tags: action, activism, antitv, dosomething, environment, getup, green, inspirational, offthecouch
1 person liked it

"Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: funny, humor, inconceivable, movies
1,760 people liked it

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