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    E.B. White
    “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E. B. White
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    “Education is the process of turning cocksure ignorance into thoughtful uncertainty.”
    ― K. G. Johnson
    tags: education, ignorance, learning
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence.
    One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both.”
    ― Robert Heinlein in Friday
    tags: faith, reason, religion
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    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: evil
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    Edmund Burke
    “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: attributed-no-source, incrementalism, inspirational, quote-by-sydney-smith
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
    ― Buddha
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: activist, patriotism
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: injustice, justice
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    William Shakespeare
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: destiny
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    Seneca
    “The sun also shines on the wicked.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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    Max DePree
    “We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.”
    ― Max Depree
    tags: animals, dogs
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    George Santayana
    “There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
    ― George Santayana
    tags: life-and-death
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  • #13
    “One must love a cat on its own terms.”
    ― Paul Gray
    tags: cats-humor, humor
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cat-humor
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    Mae West
    “Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor-men, relationships
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Anatole France
    “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: animals, love, pets
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    George Carlin
    “Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: common-sense, equality, feminism, humanism, humor, inspirational, men-and-women
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    S.J. Hunter
    “Terriers usually have their own agenda, kind of like cats, only with a lot more pointless animation. - Sydney Linden”
    ― S.J. Hunter
    tags: dog-humor
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    Yogi Berra
    “You can observe a lot just by watching.”
    ― Yogi Berra
    tags: managment, science, truism
    290 likes

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  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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