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  • #1
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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
    60255 likes

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  • #3
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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  • #4
    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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  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
    37577 likes

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  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177098 likes

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  • #7
    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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  • #8
    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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  • #9
    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music, philosophy, progress
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  • #10
    Tom Stoppard
    “I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
    tags: music
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  • #11
    E.B. White
    “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
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  • #12
    Lemony Snicket
    “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
    tags: life
    7213 likes

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  • #13
    Kevin Smith
    “Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.”
    ― Kevin Smith
    tags: controversy, diversity, intelligence
    216 likes

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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
    ― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
    tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science
    5283 likes

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  • #15
    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
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  • #16
    Fran Lebowitz
    “In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
    ― Fran Lebowitz
    tags: algebra, education, humor, mathematics
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  • #17
    Heath L. Buckmaster
    “Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
    ― Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale
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  • #18
    Jacob Bronowski
    “It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
    ― Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
    tags: creativity, education, learning
    375 likes

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  • #19
    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: women
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  • #20
    “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”
    ― Roseanne Barr
    tags: feminism, power, women
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  • #21
    Gloria Steinem
    “Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: death, feminism, men, murder, widowhood, women, womens-rights
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  • #22
    Erica Jong
    “The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: anais, bad, erica, girl, good, jong, lovers, nin, sexuality, women
    571 likes

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  • #23
    Mary Wortley Montagu
    “Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.”
    ― Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    tags: education, feminism, learning, philosophy
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  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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  • #25
    Noam Chomsky
    “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: education, education-system, instituions
    1543 likes

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  • #26
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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  • #27
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
    tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication
    1668 likes



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