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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Harvey Pekar
    “Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
    ― Harvey Pekar
    tags: life, writing
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    Harvey Pekar
    “There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)”
    ― Harvey Pekar, American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
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    Harvey Pekar
    “It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you. ”
    ― harvey pekar
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    Robert Greene
    “When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others”
    ― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
    tags: success
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    Robert Greene
    “Despise The Free Lunch”
    ― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
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    Bruce Lee
    “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, prayer
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    Bruce Lee
    “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

    Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
    ― Bruce Lee
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Anthony Robbins
    “If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. ”
    ― Tony Robbins
    tags: educational, inspirational, instructive
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    Anthony Robbins
    “People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.”
    ― Anthony Robbins
    tags: anthony-robbins, goals, lazy, life, people
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    Anthony Robbins
    “Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.”
    ― Anthony Robbins
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    Anthony Robbins
    “You can’t have a plan for your day, ‘til you have a plan for your life.”
    ― Tony Robbins
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    Anthony Robbins
    “In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.”
    ― Anthony Robbins
    tags: inspirational
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  • #18
    Lu Xun
    “Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.”
    ― Lu Xun
    tags: chinese-quote, facts, lu-xun
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: expression, humor, irony, quoting, truth
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
    ― Montaigne, Les Essais
    tags: books
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: reminding
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    Walter Kaufmann
    “Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die. ”
    ― Walter Kaufmann
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: education, learning, lifelong-learning, self-education
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: humor
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    Isaac Asimov
    “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of 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: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance
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    Edward Gibbon
    “Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”
    ― Edward Gibbon
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    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
    “A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.”
    ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Sudelbücher.
    tags: books, intelligence, mirrors
    97 likes



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