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#1

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, temptation

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#2

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

tags: women

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#3

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
― Mae West

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#4

“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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#5

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe

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#6

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational

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#7

“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: alone, attributed-no-source

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#8

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
― Timothy Leary

tags: ambition, equality

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#9

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, imagination

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#10

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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#11

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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#12

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes

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#13

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor

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#14

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

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#15

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

tags: misattributed-to-einstein

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#16

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: greatness, opposition, spirit

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#17

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
― Albert Einstein

tags: 1955, curiosity, mystery

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#18

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: adulthood, success, value

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#19

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

tags: misattributed-einstein

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#20

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein

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#21

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: force, peace

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#22

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
― Albert Einstein

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#23

“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”
― Albert Einstein

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#24

“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: future

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#25

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

tags: comedy, life, yourself

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#26

“When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.”
― Dr. Seuss, Fox in Socks

tags: childrens, humor

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#27

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

tags: love, weirdness

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#28

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#29

“Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.”
― Darby Conley

tags: ethics

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#30

“Bucky B. Katt: "I'm not closed minded you're just wrong”
― Darby Conley

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