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#1

“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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#2

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

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#3

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#4

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#5

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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#6

“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth

tags: hanlon-s-razor, malice, stupidity

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#7

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women

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#8

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

tags: manners, society

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#9

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: living

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#10

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

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#11

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

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#12

“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”
― Lily Tomlin

tags: apothegm, complain, humor

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#13

“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”
― Thomas Adcock

tags: irish

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#14

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

tags: bigotry, ignorance, life, prejudice

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#15

“All evil is good become cancerous.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: evil, life

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#16

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
― Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader

tags: life

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#17

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: planning

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#18

“If I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

tags: killing, mosquito-hawk, pointlessness

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#19

“Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.”
― Baltasar Gracian

tags: competition, life

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#20

“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: apathy, literary-criticism, obscurity, writing

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#21

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”
― H. G. Wells

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#22

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: writing

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#23

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: evil

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#24

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#25

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#26

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

tags: dance, dancing, life

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#27

“In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.”
― John Dvorak

tags: computers

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#28

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: writing

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#29

“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....”
― George Bernard Shaw, Music in London

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#30

“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
― Cheris Kramarae

tags: feminism, women

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