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    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles.

    The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!"

    "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    tags: humor, learning, physics, science
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    Mignon McLaughlin
    “An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”
    ― Mignon McLaughlin
    tags: writing
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    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: poetry
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    Robert Benchley
    “It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
    ― Robert Benchley
    tags: fame, writing
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    Robert Benchley
    “Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. ”
    ― Robert Benchley
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: friendship
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “In times of war, the law falls silent.

    Silent enim leges inter arma”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: emphasis, exclamation-points, style, writing
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: on-writing
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
    One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: drinking
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    Groucho Marx
    “When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: friends, humor, jail
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    Groucho Marx
    “The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humor, life
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    Groucho Marx
    “He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: gibe, insult
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
    ― Friedrich Neitzsche
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    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
    ― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha
    tags: beliefs, doubt, faith
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    Gautama Buddha
    “There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
    ― Buddha
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    Confucius
    “To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
    ― Confucius, The Analects
    tags: disgrace, honor, justice, society, wealth
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    Muhammad Ali
    “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
    ― Muhammad Ali
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    Muhammad Ali
    “It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.”
    ― Muhammad Ali
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    Muhammad Ali
    “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.”
    ― Muhammad Ali
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    Muhammad Ali
    “I Ain't Got No Quarrel With The VietCong...No VietCong Ever Called Me Nigger.”
    ― Muhammad Ali
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959
    tags: atheism, god, religion
    1459 likes



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