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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
    tags: art, reminding
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw."

    He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: humor
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    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: change
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    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
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: bernard-shaw, irish, pigs, pointlessness
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    Walt Whitman
    “I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations
    tags: affection, certainty, doubt, evidence, guess, humble, ideas, life, mistake, science, scientific, skepticism, surrender, thought
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: love, madness
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    Walt Whitman
    “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
    ― Walt Whitman
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: animals, attributed-no-source, friends, humor, vegetarianism
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Patricia Briggs
    “If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the music. He understood music.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Cry Wolf
    tags: joy, love, possesion
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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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: food, vegetarianism
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    Charles Manson
    “I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.”
    ― Charles Manson
    tags: true
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    Walt Whitman
    “We were together. I forget the rest.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: cute, euphoria, nostalgic
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    Walt Whitman
    “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
    ― Walt Whitman
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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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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    Charles Manson
    “I'm nobody
    I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo
    I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine
    And a straight razor ...if you get too close to me”
    ― Charles Manson
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: poetry
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    Charles Manson
    “I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that's only my own thinking and not you.”
    ― Charles Manson
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
    tags: truth
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    Stephen Crane
    “They would jeer him, and, if practicable, pelt him with missiles.”
    ― Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
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