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    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “My past is everything I failed to be.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: failure, past, self, time
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    Salman Rushdie
    “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never confuse movement with action.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: action, progress
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others
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    V.S. Naipaul
    “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
    ― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
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    Woody Allen
    “Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: art, humor, life
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    Woody Allen
    “I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: humor, reading, speed-reading, tolstoy
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    Woody Allen
    “In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.”
    ― Woody Allen
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    Woody Allen
    “More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: absurd
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    Dorothy Parker
    “That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: epitaph, humor, the-new-yorker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humor
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    Dorothy Parker
    “There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humor, the-paris-review, wisecracks, wit
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    Dorothy Parker
    “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: empty-nest, humor, motherhood, parenthood, parenting
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    Dorothy Parker
    “She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: bad-reviews
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: irritation, lament, misfortune, pity, plaintiveness
    107 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world
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    Bertrand Russell
    “In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: certainty, perspective, presumption, questioning
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    Bertrand Russell
    “I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.”
    ― Bertrand Russell , Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
    tags: babylon, belief, burden-of-proof, christian-god, egyptian, fiction, gods, hypothesis, knowledge, olympus, probability, proof, rational, reason, santa, satan, superstition
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
    tags: cruelty, fear, superstition
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    Bertrand Russell
    “One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Bertrand Russell
    “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: paraphrased, philosophy
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    H.L. Mencken
    “An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques
    tags: cabbage, cooking, fragrance, humor, idealism, metaphors, perfume, roses, similes
    473 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
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    Bertrand Russell
    “A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    63 likes



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