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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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    Alan Moore
    “Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: political-philosophy
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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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    Terry Pratchett
    “Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times: The Play
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Terry Pratchett
    “There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: horror, irony
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Michel Foucault
    “I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I never trust frank and simple people whose stories hold together.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: fearless, inspirational-quotes, truthful
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    Zhuangzi
    “The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
    ― Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Derek Landy
    “Doors are for people with no imagination.”
    ― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
    tags: creativity
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Stephen King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fantasy, fear, kvothe, man-s, name, patrick-rothfuss, wind, wise
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “The desire for knowledge shapes a man.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Terry Pratchett
    “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
    1660 likes



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