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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: chess, daring, ideas
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    John Dryden
    “Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
    But good men starve for want of impudence.”
    ― John Dryden, The Poetical Works of John Dryden
    tags: boldness, impudence, knaves
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    George Burns
    “If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
    ― George Burns
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127092 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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  • #7
    “One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
    ― Tim Burton
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Milan Kundera
    “Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: goals, success
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93520 likes

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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
    tags: evil, judgement, right
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    John Steinbeck
    “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    tags: repression, strength
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    Tennessee Williams
    “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    José Saramago
    “...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.”
    ― José Saramago, Blindness
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
    3324 likes

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: alone, attributed-no-source
    11796 likes

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
    4201 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
    tags: life, possibilities
    757 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.”
    ― Carl Sagan
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    Mitch Albom
    “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: death, life
    11429 likes

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    “If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, My Point... And I Do Have One
    tags: animal-cruelty, animal-rights, animal-testing, animal-welfare, animals, cosmetics, ethics, prisoners, vegan, veganism
    1183 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either - Or
    tags: poets
    1007 likes



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