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#1

“We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.”
― Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

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#2

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

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#3

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
― Henry Miller

tags: life

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#4

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational

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#5

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

tags: life

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#6

“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

tags: brinksmanship, crazy, crisis, insanity

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#7

“It never got weird enough for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: individuality, uniqueness

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#8

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: life

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#9

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

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#10

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

tags: inspiration

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#11

“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

tags: life

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#12

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: sex

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#13

“Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

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#14

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

tags: conduct-of-life, life, self-confidence, self-trust

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#15

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”
― Walter Elliot

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#16

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
― Émile Zola

tags: art, enterprise, talent, work

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#17

“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.”
― Albert Einstein

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#18

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: government, ideas, taxes

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#19

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom

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#20

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
― Epictetus

tags: history, humility, philosophy

1798 likes

#21

“Et l'amour, où tout est facile,
Où tout est donné dans l'instant;
Il existe au milieu du temps
La possibilité d'une île.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

tags: amour, temps

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#22

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

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#23

“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: character, emerson, intellect

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#24

“It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.”
― Thucydides

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#25

“But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to a few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solititude and want of faith in himself and others.”
― Joseph Conrad

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#26

“He that is the author of war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”
― Thomas Paine

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#27

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: dramatist-quotes

3911 likes

#28

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
― Alvin Toffler

tags: futuristic

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#29

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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#30

“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”
― Cicero Marcus Tullius

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