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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: cool, epistemology, philosophical
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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    Bart D. Ehrman
    “There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”
    ― Bart D. Ehrman, God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
    tags: critical-thinking, dogma, fanaticism, fundamentalism, religion
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    Alice Roosevelt Longworth
    “If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”
    ― Alice Roosevelt Longworth
    tags: gossip, humor, slander
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    C.G. Jung
    “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: psychiatry, sanity
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: belief, delusions, faith, insanity
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  • #10
    “No one really knows why humans do what they do.”
    ― David K. Reynolds
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    Stephen Crane
    “A Man Said to the Universe

    A man said to the universe:
    “Sir, I exist!”
    “However,” replied the universe,
    “The fact has not created in me
    A sense of obligation.”
    ― Stephen Crane, War Is Kind and Other Poems
    tags: existence, meaning, poetry, purpose, universe
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    Peter D. Ward
    “Ignorance is the enemy, curiosity the weapon of choice”
    ― Peter D. Ward
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
    tags: war
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  • #14
    “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
    ― Nicholas Klein
    tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial
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    Albert Camus
    “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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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'

    'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.'

    'The dog did nothing in the night-time.'

    'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, Silver Blaze
    tags: blaze, curious, dog, humor, incident, mystery, sherlock-holmes, silver
    375 likes

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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse , Uneasy Money
    tags: adeptness, dexterity, men, poise, superiority, women
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “What ho!" I said.
    "What ho!" said Motty.
    "What ho! What ho!"
    "What ho! What ho! What ho!"
    After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.”
    ― Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves
    tags: conversation, humor, humour
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Doctor Sally
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Employers are like horses — they require management.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.”
    ― Wodehouse
    tags: existentialism, humor, life, pondering
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Mike and Psmith
    tags: incoherence, sleep
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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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
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
    23473 likes

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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
    17494 likes

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  • #29
    Vivekananda
    “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you,
    none can make you spiritual.
    There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
    ― Vivekananda
    tags: confidence, spiritual
    512 likes

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    Vivekananda
    “The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
    ― Vivekananda
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    Vivekananda
    “We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”
    ― Swami Vivekananda
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