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#1

“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”
― Mark Twain

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#2

“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
― Eric Hoffer

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#3

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#4

“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.”
― Eric Hoffer

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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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#6

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#7

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: evil

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#8

“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
― Eric Hoffer

tags: imitation

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#9

“Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”
― Eric Hoffer

tags: faith-power

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#10

“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: rudeness

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#11

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#12

“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”
― Eric Hoffer

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#13

“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: reading

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#14

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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#15

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#16

“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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#17

“In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.”
― Eric Hoffer

tags: innovation

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#18

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#19

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

tags: clothing

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#20

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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#21

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time

tags: belief, movements, philosophy, politics

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#22

“Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.”
― Eric Hoffer

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#23

“It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and some of us use our memories.”
― Barbara Trapido, Brother of the More Famous Jack

tags: quotes-memory-habit-showy

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“She could surely rise to a dishwasher, but she prefers to use her children. She believes that a row of children chopping vegetables is a better thing than a machine.”
― Barbara Trapido, Brother of the More Famous Jack

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#25

“I am in general susceptible to style.”
― Barbara Trapido, Brother of the More Famous Jack

tags: style

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#26

“A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

tags: beards, shaving, truth

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#27

“Aut viam inveniam aut faciam."

"I shall either find away, or make one”
― Latin Quote

tags: a, find, kendall, latin, make, one, quote, ryan, way

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#28

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
― Galileo Galilei

tags: inspirational

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#29

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#30

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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