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#1

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”
― Gautama Buddha

tags: inspirational

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#2

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

tags: experience, karma

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#3

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
― Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

tags: paradigm-shift, science, scientists

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#4

“Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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#5

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
― Hannah Arendt

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#6

“There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.”
― Mary Jane Sherfey

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#7

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#8

“From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: death, inner-life, metaphysics, science

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#9

“Show some fucking adaptability!”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon.

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#10

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: drugs, philosophy, politics

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#11

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: love, risk

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#12

“Language is a virus from outer space”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: language

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#13

“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: burroughs, change, escape, inspirational

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#14

“Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.”
― William S. Burroughs

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#15

“Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: life

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#16

“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: architects, artists, intellectual

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#17

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: hell, popularity

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#18

“All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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#19

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#20

“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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#21

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

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#22

“The argument that Saddam Hussein was a bad man and had to be removed simply won't do. There are many bad men around the world who run countries and we don't topple them, and, indeed, in earlier years we actually supported Saddam Hussein when he was fighting Iran. The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and an unacceptable argument for regime change.”
― John Major

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#23

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

tags: inspirational

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#24

“A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.”
― Gaston Bachelard

tags: dreams, language, nature, phenomenology, words, writing

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#25

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: appreciation, inspiration, power-of-music

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#26

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#27

“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: cheese, dip, dunce, food, history, writing

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#30

“WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

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#31

“Aarne-Thompson-Uther index”
― Marina Warner, Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale

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#32

“If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.”
― Ernest Hemingway, 88 Poems

tags: christmas, christmas-tree, felo-de-se, hanging, suicide, valentine, valentine-s-day

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