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#1

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

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#2

“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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#3

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#4

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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#5

“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”
― Dean Karnazes

tags: inspirational, running

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#6

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

tags: writing-words

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#7

“I am large, I contain multitudes”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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#8

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

tags: annoyance, writing

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#9

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

tags: inspirational

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#10

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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#11

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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#12

“Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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#13

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

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#14

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

tags: happiness

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#15

“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
― Julia Child

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#16

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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#17

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

tags: imagination

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#18

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

tags: change, past, present

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#19

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

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#20

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

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#21

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

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#22

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

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#23

“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
― Michael Crichton

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#24

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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#25

“Face front, true believers!”
― Stan Lee

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#26

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#27

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

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#28

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

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#29

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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#30

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

tags: alone, books, friends, solitude

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