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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: science, science-fiction
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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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
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: creation, god, humor, man
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: cynicism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: breakfast-brilliant, insults
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.

    [Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
    tags: education, intellectuals, intelligence
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “It may be that our role on this planet
    is not to worship God--but to create him.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Science is the only religion of mankind.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: cosmology
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: intelligence, survival
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    Philip K. Dick
    “No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
    tags: fucked-up, humor, postmodern
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    Philip K. Dick
    “A man is an angel that has gone deranged.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: absurd
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    Philip K. Dick
    “If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: humor, irony, optimism, pessimism, schizophrenia, universe
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    Philip K. Dick
    “My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: advice, dark-night-of-the-soul, depression, practicality, problem
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Courage is grace under pressure.”
    ― ernest hemingway
    tags: courage
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All thinking men are atheists.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    tags: atheism, inspirational
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: honesty, integerity
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