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    Albert Einstein
    “We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: create, misattributed, problem-solving, thinking
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    Don DeLillo
    “A band played live Muzak.”
    ― Don DeLillo, White Noise
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Pierre Lemaitre
    “In the end, the boy was simply a dreamer, it was probably common among the rich, who don’t think that reality applies to them.”
    ― Pierre Lemaitre, The Great Swindle
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
    ― Henry Thomas Buckle
    tags: creativity, dreams, gossip, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, paraphrased
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    M.R. Carey
    “Qui tacet consentire. If you don’t say no, you just said yes.”
    ― M R Carey
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    Umberto Eco
    “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
    tags: books
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    Umberto Eco
    “People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
    tags: dogma, evil, fanaticism, fundamentalism, religion
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    William Gibson
    “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
    ― William Gibson
    tags: future, planning
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    William Gibson
    “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
    ― William Gibson
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    William Gibson
    “Time moves in one direction, memory in another.”
    ― William Gibson
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    William Shakespeare
    “What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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  • #18
    “In the world of twenty-four-hour news, what was happening was often secondary to ‘being there’.”
    ― Steve Lewis, The Marmalade Files
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    Jane Harper
    “He passed a takeaway that seemed to offer cuisine from any corner of the world as long as it was fried or could be displayed in a pie warmer.”
    ― Jane Harper, The Dry
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    John Banville
    “Do other people, remembering their parents, feel, as I do, a sense of having inadvertently done a small though significant, irreversible wrong?”
    ― John Banville, The Blue Guitar
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
    Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
    Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
    Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
    Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
    Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
    Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: creation, creativity, criticism, wisdom, wisdom-quote, wise
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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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
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    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64764 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
    ― Buckminster R. Fuller
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    James Gleick
    “Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.”
    ― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
    tags: chaos, chaos-theory, life, mathematics, paradigm, paradigm-shift, philosophy, physics, science, thomas-kuhn
    87 likes

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    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “Either war is obsolete or men are. ”
    ― R. Buckminister Fuller
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