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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor , Wise Blood
    tags: life, place, search
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    Gertrude Stein
    “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: genius, humor
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    Bill Nye
    “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
    ― Bill Nye
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “Consistency is the playground of dull minds.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: language, perception, power-of-words
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
    tags: philosophy, taoism
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
    tags: fools, heretics, ideas, negotiation
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything. ”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: religion
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Anything that can be said can be said clearly.”
    ― Wittgenstein
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    Alan Greenspan
    “ I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant”
    ― Alan Greenspan
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    Alan Greenspan
    “If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. -- Speaking to a Senate Committee in 1987, as quoted in the Guardian Weekly, November 4, 2005.”
    ― Alan Greenspan
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: afterlife, philosophy, religion
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    Umberto Eco
    “Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.”
    ― Umberto Eco, Numero Zero: An Acclaimed Political Thriller Unraveling Mussolini's Conspiracy, Media Hoaxes, and Italian History
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: confidence, inspirational, pride
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays
    tags: love
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: belief, firm, ignorance, intensity, knowledge
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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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    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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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, inspirational
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    Mark Twain
    “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, men, women
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    Mark Twain
    “The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Upton Sinclair
    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
    ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
    tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding
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    Charles Darwin
    “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
    tags: certainty, ignorance, knowledge, open-mindedness, science, willful-ignorance
    833 likes



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