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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: music, power-of-music, universe
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Johann Sebastian Bach
    “Soli Deo Gloria”
    ― Johann Sebastian Bach
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”
    ― P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
    tags: fate, humor, pessimism
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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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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr
    tags: religion, science
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Douglas Adams
    “A cup of tea would restore my normality."

    [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
    ― Douglas Adams
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Douglas Adams
    “The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
    tags: ball, cricket, description, game, play
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    Edmund Blunden
    “Cricket to us was more than play,
    It was a worship in the summer sun.”
    ― Edmund Blunden
    tags: cricket, summer
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
    ― Victor Frankl
    tags: inspirational-quotes, overcoming-adversity-quotes, philosophy-of-life
    676 likes

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    David Bentley Hart
    “Beauty is gloriously useless; it has no purpose but itself.”
    ― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
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    David Bentley Hart
    “Materialists believe that absolutely everything, even the formal structures of culture and the intentional structures of consciousness, can be reduced without remainder to an ensemble of mechanistic interactions among intrinsically mindless physical elements; and I suppose anyone capable of believing that is capable of believing practically anything.”
    ― David Bentley Hart, A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays
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    Johann Sebastian Bach
    “I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”
    ― Johann Sebastian Bach
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    Johann Sebastian Bach
    “There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”
    ― J. S. Bach
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
    tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion
    1534 likes



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