Quotes - J C Steel (jcsteel) Showing 1-16 of 16

#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#2

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#3

“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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#4

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#5

“Life is like a sewer - you get out of it what you put into it.”
― Tom Lehrer

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#6

“There is always a choice."
"You mean I could choose certain death?"
"A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

tags: choice, freedom

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#7

“Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Nonfiction

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#8

“I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#9

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― Jose Marti

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#10

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude

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#11

“To err is human, to purr is feline.”
― Robert Byrne, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

tags: cats, err, error, feline, human, humor, purr, purring, quotes, robert-byrne

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#12

“The good news about self publishing is you get to do everything yourself. The bad news about self publishing is you get to do everything yourself.”
― Lori Lesko

tags: humor, self-publishing, writing

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#13