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#1

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#2

“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#3

“If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. ”
― Yogi Berra

tags: philosophical-humor

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#4

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

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#5

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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#6

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

tags: arrogance, ignorance, politicians, politics

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#7

“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.”
― Audrey Hepburn

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#8

“Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.”
― Henry Miller

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#9

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

tags: inspirational

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#10

“Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#11

“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”
― Salvador Dali

tags: insanity, sanity

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#12

“Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: cynicism, definition, honesty

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#13

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: humor

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#14

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
― Isaac Asimov

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#15

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: anti-patriotism, identity, nation, nationalism, politics

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#16

“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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#17

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

tags: change

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#18

“Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.”
― Samuel Butler

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#19

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

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#20

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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#21

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

tags: technology

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#22

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: attributed, intellectualism

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#23

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics

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#24

“There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.”
― Woody Allen

tags: ethics

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#25

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-facts

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#26

“God is subtle but he is not malicious.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational

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#27

“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”
― John Maynard Keynes

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#28

“Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.”
― John Pentland Mahaffy

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#29

“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#30

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor

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