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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent
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    Blaise Pascal
    “The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: intellect, originality
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    Socrates
    “I only know that I know nothing”
    ― Socrates
    tags: creative-thinking, intellect, knowledge, philosophy, wisdom
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
    tags: philosophy, wisdom
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: conscious, disease, fyodor-dostoyevsky, illness, intellect, notes-from-the-underground, reason
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    Mark Twain
    “I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve
    tags: adam-and-eve, inspirational, intellect, morality
    144 likes

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    G.I. Gurdjieff
    “What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.”
    ― Gurdjieff
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “Obesity is a double victory for consumerism. Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and then buy diet products - contributing to economic growth twice over.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות
    tags: consumerism, economic-growth, obesity
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    Thiruvalluvar
    “To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.”
    ― Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
    tags: act, action, activity, deeds, evil, good, harm, kindness, love, shame, virtue
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    Sadhguru
    “If you think hundred percent logically, there is really no possibility of life.”
    ― Jaggi Vasudev, Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget
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    Mo Willems
    “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
    ― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
    tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology
    4135 likes

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    Chris Rock
    “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
    ― Chris Rock
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    Thabiso Daniel Monkoe
    “Knowledge is the most potent weapon”
    ― Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
    tags: educational-philosophy
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    Elif Shafak
    “Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me.”
    ― Elif Shafak
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    Gail Honeyman
    “In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
    ― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
    tags: books, libraries, reading
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    Belle Blackburn
    “Never marry a man unless you can sit with him reading a book and feel perfectly comfortable. If it makes you nervous to sit quietly with him while you read, feeling like you need to entertain him or provide conversation, then this would not be the person you should spend your life with. You should feel free to just be when you are with him.”
    ― Belle Blackburn
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    Oliver Sacks
    “If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”
    ― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69684 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Phyllis McGinley
    “A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
    ― Phyllis McGinley
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    Eça de Queirós
    “Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.”
    ― Eça de Queirós
    tags: diapers, politics
    220 likes

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    Rupi Kaur
    “if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
    7961 likes



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