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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Richard J. Ward
    “Jade blinked. It was only for a fraction of a second but she could have sworn the the house had changed shape.”
    ― Richard J. Ward, The Hermit and the Time Machine
    tags: blink, children-s-books, hermit, house, magic, richard-ward, shape, time-machine
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    Richard J. Ward
    “It's quite simple, they poisoned it with smoke, chemicals and pollution from factories and cars, and power stations. Silly humans knew what they were doing, but carried on poisoning the planet anyway.”
    ― Richard J. Ward, The Hermit and the Time Machine
    tags: children-s-book, factories, future, hermit, humans, poison, pollution, recycle, time-machine
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    Keith Steinbaum
    “He didn’t like the idea of leaving unfinished business behind. He had wanted definite answers about the heart attacks to be able to turn the page on who or what caused so many of his brothers to die.”
    ― Keith Steinbaum, The Poe Consequence
    tags: dark, heart-attack, keith-steinbaum, the-poe-consequence, thriller, unfinished-business
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Keith Steinbaum
    “There will always be con artists, I know that,” Warren admitted. “But that doesn’t mean clairvoyance isn’t real.”
    ― Keith Steinbaum
    tags: clairvoyance, con-artists, future, keith-steinbaum, perception, sixth-sense, thriller
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
    tags: logic, love
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
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    Homer
    “Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
    ― Homer, The Odyssey
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Homer
    “…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: classics, greece, longing, love, lovers
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    Homer
    “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: heart, homer, the-iliad
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    Amy Bloom
    “The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
    ― Amy Bloom, Away
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92186 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Dick Francis
    “Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.”
    ― Dick Francis, To the Hilt
    tags: humor, paraphrased, weirdness
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    Francisco Cândido Xavier
    “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
    ― Chico Xavier
    tags: inspirational, life-lessons
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    Dorothea Mackellar
    “I love a sunburnt country,
    A land of sweeping plains,
    Of ragged mountain ranges,
    Of droughts and flooding rains.
    I love her far horizons,
    I love her jewel-sea,
    Her beauty and her terror –
    The wide brown land for me!”
    ― Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar
    tags: australia, australian, poetry
    973 likes

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    “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
    tags: bible, creation, god, science, scripture, truth
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  • #24
    “I've been asleep and I don't know if it's the same day or week or year, but who the hell cares anyway?”
    ― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice
    tags: asleep
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    “Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
    ― Evelyn Lau, Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far
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    Hilary Mantel
    “You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love
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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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    Angel M.B. Chadwick
    “If you live on regrets, you'll be living a parasitic life.”
    ― Angel M.B. Chadwick, Corridors of My Mind
    tags: wisdom-philosophy-inspiration
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    Angel M.B. Chadwick
    “I'm off the rails, tipping the scales, following the trail, delving into my own custom made form of outer space.”
    ― Angel M.B. Chadwick, Corridors of My Mind
    tags: inspirational-attitude
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    Jean de la Fontaine
    “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
    ― Jean de La Fontaine
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    Anne Bradstreet
    “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
    ― Anne Bradstreet
    tags: authority, brute-force, force, oppression, wisdom
    1726 likes



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