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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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    Joseph Heller
    “He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: life, love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    ― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
    tags: books, reading
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    Harper Lee
    “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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    Margaret Landon
    “She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
    ― Margaret Landon
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: dreams, truth
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    Marilynne Robinson
    “This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
    ― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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    Tennessee Williams
    “I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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    Graham Hancock
    “I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.”
    ― Graham Hancock
    tags: brain, consciousness
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    Graham Hancock
    “Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.”
    ― Graham Hancock
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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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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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    tags: consent, existence, horror, knowledge, western
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: intelligence
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
    tags: god
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “The point is there ain't no point.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
    tags: nihilism
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    tags: atheism, mystery
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Child of God
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
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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
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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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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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