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#1

“Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
― Fredrich Nietzsche

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#2

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, temptation

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#3

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: boredom, life

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#4

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: life, travel

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#5

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: travel

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#6

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#7

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#8

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#9

“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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#10

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way

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#11

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-stereotypes

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#12

“If you know the why, you can live any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, understanding

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#13

“That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.”
― Alan Moore

tags: absurd

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#14

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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#15

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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#16

“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
― Plato, The Symposium

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#17

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#18

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: classics

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#19

“Not everyone will like you. Not everyone will be kind to you. Not everyone will agree with you. That does not mean you have to be unkind in return.”
― Brianna Wiest

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#20

“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#21

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

tags: history

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#22

“Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are ‘valid,’ let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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