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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Edward Abbey
    “Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.”
    ― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Dream in a pragmatic way.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Edward Abbey
    “If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.”
    ― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
    tags: knowledge, purpose, wisdom, work
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “How good one feels when one is full -- how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
    tags: humor
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    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world
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    Franz Kafka
    “What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Edward Abbey
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Edward Abbey
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    Bertrand Russell
    “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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    Albert Camus
    “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
    ― Albert Camus, L'Étranger
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    Edward Abbey
    “When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”
    ― Edward Abbey
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    Albert Camus
    “At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Otto von Bismarck
    “Nur ein Idiot glaubt, aus eigenen Erfahrungen zu lernen. Ich ziehe es vor, aus den Erfahrungen anderer zu lernen, um von vorneherein eigene Fehler zu vermeiden.”
    ― Otto von Bismarck
    tags: erfahrungen, experience, fehler, inspirational, lernen, mistakes
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-stereotypes
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    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. ”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
    tags: three-men-in-a-boat
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
    tags: far-from-the-madding-crowd, holiday
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do.  It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me.  I can sit and look at it for hours.  I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
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    Aristotle
    “Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: solitude
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    Aristotle
    “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: ethics, philosphy, self-discovery
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    Plato
    “Love is a serious mental disease.”
    ― Plato, Phaedrus
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    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome
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    Plato
    “good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
    ― Plato
    tags: laws, people
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    Plato
    “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
    ― Plato
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