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    Megan McCafferty
    “You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.”
    ― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts
    tags: humor
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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
    tags: age-adult
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: apocryphal, feminism
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: boggs, finnick, funny, humour, hunger-games, katniss, mockingjay, odair, suzanne-collins, witty
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    Suzanne Collins
    “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: inspirational, love
    6429 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Douglas Adams
    “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    tags: philosophy
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    Douglas Adams
    “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: dreams
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    Douglas Adams
    “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
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    Douglas Adams
    “All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.”
    ― Douglas Adams
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    Douglas Adams
    “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: airports, humor, travel
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    Douglas Adams
    “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: humor, science
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    Mark Twain
    “Use the right word, not its second cousin.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: on-writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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    Alfred Adler
    “It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
    ― Alfred Adler
    tags: fighting, principles
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    Francis Bacon
    “In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    ― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
    tags: optimism, pessimism
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    Albert Einstein
    “A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: education, ethics, morality, needs, religion, sociality, sympathy
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    Albert Einstein
    “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adolescence, attributed, attributed-no-source, prejudice
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    Dwight David Eisenhower
    “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
    tags: government, guns, military, military-budget, politics, poverty, war, weapons
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
    1988 likes

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    Heinrich Heine
    “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
    ― Heinrich Heine
    tags: books, censorship
    724 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII
    tags: freedom, liberty, slavery
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  • #27
    Groucho Marx
    “Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humor
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    Marilyn vos Savant
    “To acquire knowledge, one must study;
    but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
    ― Marilyn vos Savant
    tags: knowledge, observation, study, studying, wisdom
    323 likes

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    Margaret Thatcher
    “No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114362 likes



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