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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
    4627 likes

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  • #3
    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
    1834 likes

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  • #4
    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
    3875 likes

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    Alain de Botton
    “The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: anxiety, personality, sadness
    220 likes

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    Alain de Botton
    “We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.”
    ― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
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    Alain de Botton
    “Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: cynicism, idealism, standards
    133 likes

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  • #8
    Alain de Botton
    “Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.”
    ― Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
    tags: desire, longing, possessions, poverty, satisfaction, wealth
    91 likes

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  • #9
    Alain de Botton
    “Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: experience, intuitition, judgement, unconscious
    27 likes

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  • #10
    Alain de Botton
    “See how small your are next to the mountains. Accept what is bigger that you and what you do not understand. The world may appear illogical to you, but it does not follow that it is illogical per se. Our life is not the measure of all things: consider sublime places a reminder of human insignificance and frailty.”
    ― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
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  • #11
    Alain de Botton
    “Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: divorce, misery, unhappiness
    26 likes

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  • #12
    Robert Benchley
    “Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
    ― Robert Benchley
    tags: bleeding, funny, humor, opera, stabbed
    1988 likes

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  • #13
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
    12558 likes

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  • #14
    “Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, his screaming sounds like singing.”
    ― Nathan Hong
    tags: humor
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  • #15
    “Why would you pretend to not be you, when you are created as you?”
    ― Nathan Hong
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, personality, you-be-you
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  • #16
    Ernest Rutherford
    “If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.”
    ― Ernest Rutherford
    tags: experiments, science, statistics
    41 likes

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  • #17
    “I am not pointing fingers, but rather pointing at the facts, as the facts point fingers regardless.”
    ― Nathan Hong
    tags: fact, facts, funny, funny-but-true, funny-quotes, humor, true-to-life, truth
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  • #18
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
    15054 likes

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  • #19
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
    32969 likes

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  • #20
    Amy Tan
    “Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
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