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"It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men."
— Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front)

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"You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that."
— Erich Maria Remarque

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"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. "
— Carl Sagan

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"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
— Carl Sagan

tags: carl, sagan
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"Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature."
— Carl Sagan

tags: atheism, religion
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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere."
— Carl Sagan

tags: imagination
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe."
— Carl Sagan

tags: science
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"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."
— Carl Sagan

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"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
— Carl Sagan

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"I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."
— Carl Sagan

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"Science is a way of thinking much more then it is a body of knowledge."
— Carl Sagan

tags: science
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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
— Carl Sagan

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
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"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, opinions
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: age
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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, morality, reading
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"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: dreaming, dreams, imagination
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"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: life, surrealistic
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: america
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"Women are made to be loved not understood."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

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"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: humor
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
— Oscar Wilde (The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde)

tags: men, women
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"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."
— Oscar Wilde (The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose)

tags: curiosity, wisdom
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"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? "
— Oscar Wilde

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"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
— Oscar Wilde

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

tags: books, soul
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
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"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
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"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
— Carl Sagan

tags: humor, philosophy
122 people liked it

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

tags: astronomer, science, writer
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"Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path. "
— Carl Sagan

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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

tags: reality
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
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"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
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"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
— Albert Einstein

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"Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, science, systems
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"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

tags: reminding
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"Love doesn't require two people look at each other, but that they look together in the same direction"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: love
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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
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