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    Kwame Anthony Appiah
    “It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect--and shame comes when you lose that title--a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.”
    ― Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
    tags: honor, reputation, respect, shame
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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
    ― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    ― Tom Bodett
    tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, love
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    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: humor, insanity
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    ― Herbert Bayard Swope
    tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success
    11421 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
    If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: goal, goals, gratitude, happiness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leadership, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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    Peter Shaffer
    “The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
    ― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise
    tags: life, life-lessons
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: trust, truth
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    Robert Orben
    “Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
    ― Robert Orben
    tags: humour, politics, truth
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    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: human-nature, people, truth
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    Anne Lamott
    “You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
    ― Anne Lamott
    tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth
    1993 likes

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    Terry Goodkind
    “If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
    tags: adversity, sword, truth
    1266 likes

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers
    tags: facts, truth
    1145 likes

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    Aristotle
    “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: truth
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  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: perception, philosophy, scientific-process, truth
    645 likes



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