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#1

“...it's the groups that can't accept diversity that hate and fear us the most. They should celebrate diversity, not just accept it.”
― A.B. Gayle, Mardi Gras

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#2

“Because people should not be punished for loving and hoping and holding their hearts open.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

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#3

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#4

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135489 likes

#5

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#6

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#7

“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”
― Marquis de Sade

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#8

“Religions are the cradles of despotism.”
― Marquis de Sade

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#9

“Love Is Stronger Than Pride”
― Sade

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#10

“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”
― The Marquis de Sade

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#11

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

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#12

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#13

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

15488 likes

#14

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11252 likes

#15

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking

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#16

“People don't look into their neighbor's bowl to see if he's got enough food. They look to see if that asshole has more. Greed is easy. Sharing's hard. It's why parents have to teach that instead of not hoarding shit. We're all hard wired for self-preservation. [Kai Gracen]”
― Rhys Ford, Mad Lizard Mambo

tags: greed, human-nature

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#17

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

4662 likes

#18

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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#19

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind

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