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    Carl Sagan
    “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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    Donald Rumsfeld
    “Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns- the ones we don't know we don't know.”
    ― Donald Rumsfeld
    tags: knowledge, statistics
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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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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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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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    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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    J.K. Rowling
    “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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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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    Albert Einstein
    “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, respect
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    George Carlin
    “So I say, “Live and let live.” That’s my motto. “Live and let live.” And anyone who can’t go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherfucker. It’s a simple philosophy, but it’s always worked in our family.”
    ― George Carlin
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
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    Robert Orben
    “Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
    ― Robert Orben
    tags: humour, politics, truth
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth
    tags: hanlon-s-razor, malice, stupidity
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
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    Robert Frost
    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: education
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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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    Mark Twain
    “The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, philosophy, religion
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
    ― Sarah Dessen
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    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: women
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    George Carlin
    “The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: bad-girls, christmas, santa, santa-claus, sex
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    Marlene Dietrich
    “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
    ― Marlene Dietrich
    tags: attributed-no-source
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