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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The minute I heard my first love story,
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    how blind that was.
    Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
    They're in each other all along.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi
    tags: lovers
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    ― Rumi
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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    “When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”
    ― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay
    tags: dead-poets-society, john-keating, tom-schulman
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, respect
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    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: animals, cruelty, mankind
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: destructiveness, greed, materialism, needs, selfishness, vice
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live. ”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
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    Albert Einstein
    “Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: fascism, irresponsibility, nationalism
    293 likes



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