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    Albert Einstein
    “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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    Bill Murray
    “And then depression set in....”
    ― Bill Murray
    tags: depression
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    “Spike Spiegel: Hey, Jet, did you know that there are three things that I hate?
    Jet Black: Whatever...
    Spike Spiegel: Kids... animals... and women with atitude.
    Jet Black: Oh?
    Spike Spiegel: So why do we have all three neatly gathered on our ship!”
    ― Keiko Nobumoto
    tags: cowboy-bebop, jet-black, spike-spiegel
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    David Mitchell
    “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    “People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think. Don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome.”
    ― River Tam - Serenity
    tags: river-tam, serenity
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    Bill Murray
    “I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.”
    ― Bill Murray
    tags: bill-murray, dislike, dogs, like, person, trust
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    John Wayne
    “I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."

    - J.B Books in The Shootist 1976, directed by Don Siegel”
    ― John Wayne
    tags: actor, cowboy, john-wayne, the-shootist
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: poem, quote, ralph-waldo-emerson, trail
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss
    tags: depression, pain, trauma
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    Ned Vizzini
    “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: depression, sadness, suicide
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
    ― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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  • #13
    That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent
    “That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.”
    ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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  • #14
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: choice, freedom, peace, war
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: cat, cats, stubborn, stubborness
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    tags: condescending, income-tax, pay, taxes, tyranny
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cult, danger, law, organized-religion, power, religion, sect, separation-of-church-and-state
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “There is no such thing as "Just a cat.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
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    John M. Ford
    “Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.”
    ― John M. Ford, From the End of the Twentieth Century
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    John Myers Myers
    “The steps to degradation are only three: the actuality of the shameful condition, the recognition of the actuality while feeling unable to do anything about it, and then acceptance of it as the normal state of affairs.”
    ― John Myers Myers, Silverlock
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: insanity, love, marriage
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
    12462 likes

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    John Wayne
    “I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”
    ― John Wayne "The Shootist"
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
    tags: dalinar-kholin
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
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    Peter V. Brett
    “Pain is only wind, bend as the palm and let it blow over you.”
    ― Peter V. Brett, The Core
    tags: pain, palm, wind
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