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    George Carlin
    “The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
    ― George Carlin
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    George Carlin
    “If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
    ― George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty
    tags: humanity, humor, humour, perspective, philosophie
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    Tom Stoppard
    “We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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    Tom Stoppard
    “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: stoppard
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    Tom Stoppard
    “Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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    Tom Stoppard
    “We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: action, actors, drama, entrance, exit, life, passage, theatre, transition
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Tom Stoppard
    “I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
    tags: music
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    Tom Stoppard
    “Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: attitude, chances, doors, entrance, exit, opportunities, passage, transition
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    Woody Allen
    “Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.”
    ― Woody Allen
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    George Santayana
    “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
    ― George Santayana
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    The earth has its music for those who will listen
    “The earth has its music for those who will listen”
    ― Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies
    tags: misattributed-george-santayana
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    George Santayana
    “My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.”
    ― George Santayana, Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies
    tags: atheism, baruch-spinoza, gods, inspirational, interest, motivational, naturalism, piety, spinoza, universe
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    George Santayana
    “Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
    ― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
    tags: madness, sanity
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    Salvador Dalí
    “A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
    ― Salvador Dali
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    Salvador Dalí
    “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”
    ― Salvador Dali
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    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
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    Federico García Lorca
    “The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.”
    ― Federico García-Lorca
    tags: art, creativity
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    Lewis Black
    “Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.”
    ― Lewis Black, Nothing's Sacred
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