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    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
    tags: principia, science
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    Woody Allen
    “My brain? That's my second favorite organ.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: humor
    408 likes

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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
    13931 likes

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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
    27752 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: enterprise, tenacity
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth
    2924 likes

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  • #8
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
    2343 likes

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  • #9
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
    35264 likes

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  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
    37363 likes

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  • #11
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's Memoirs
    308 likes

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  • #12
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: control, vice
    172 likes

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  • #13
    Voltaire
    “May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. ”
    ― Voltaire
    251 likes

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  • #14
    Voltaire
    “Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    John Stuart Mill
    “A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”
    ― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
    tags: action, ethics, inaction, injury, morality, responsibility
    466 likes

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  • #16
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, religion
    5306 likes

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  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
    15054 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: god, rational, religion, thinking
    569 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after. ”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: love
    372 likes

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    “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
    ― Daphne Rae, Love Until It Hurts: The Work of Mother Teresa and Her Missionaries of Charity
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa
    6247 likes

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    Max Lucado
    “A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
    ― Max Lucado
    tags: inspirational, love
    4918 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: humbert-humbert, love
    6118 likes

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  • #23
    Mother Teresa
    “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: paraphrased
    3317 likes

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  • #24
    Julio Cortázar
    “Los libros van siendo el único lugar de la casa donde todavía se puede estar tranquilo.”
    ― Julio Cortázar
    326 likes

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  • #25
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    1370 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I am always in love.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
    516 likes

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  • #27
    John Donne
    “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
    ― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose
    tags: community, death, isolation, mankind
    950 likes

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  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
    47079 likes

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  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
    42478 likes

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  • #30
    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
    17495 likes



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