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  • #1
    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    Colette

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    Terry Pratchett
    “They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.”
    Terry Pratchett, Nation

  • #4
    E.M. Forster
    “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
    E.M. Forster

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Alex Haley
    “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
    Alex Haley

  • #7
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    Margaret Mitchell

  • #8
    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
    Marie Curie

  • #9
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #10
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #11
    Irwin Shaw
    “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
    Irwin Shaw

  • #12
    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #13
    Ian Fleming
    “Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
    Ian Fleming

  • #14
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

  • #15
    W.B. Yeats
    “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
    William Butler Yeats

  • #16
    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War



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