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“Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: keep-going-going, life-lessons, morality

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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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#3

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#4

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life

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#5

“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: excess, over-indulgence, overdoing

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#6

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

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#7

“A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
― Ayn Rand

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#8

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: crime, government, innocence, law, libertarian

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#9

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

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#10

“Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.”
― Richard Denney

tags: books, richard-denney, storytelling, teen-fiction

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#11

“A cup of tea would restore my normality."

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
― Douglas Adams

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#12

“Reiterating other people's hopes, dreams and fears. That's what politics is all about.”
― Antonio G. Kowatsch

tags: meaning, politics, truth

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#13

“It's easy to dislike the truth for it is ugly and harsh to the naked eye.”
― Antonio Kowatsch

tags: life, reality, truth

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#14

“The prospect of death is nature's way of encouraging us to strive for greatness.”
― Antonio Kowatsch

tags: death, greatness, nature, truth

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#15

“Out of all the creatures that roam the earth man is the only one that managed to enslave itself.”
― Antonio Kowatsch

tags: freedom, life, mind, wisdom

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#16

“There's something inherently comical about the fact that most people want to change other people's lives, while they themselves remain stoic as they loiter in their own shortcomings.”
― Antonio Kowatsch

tags: irony, life-advice

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#17

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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#18

“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#19

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

tags: evil, stupidity

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#20

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#21

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#22

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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#23

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#24

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

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#25

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

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#26

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

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#27

“People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: noam-chomsky

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#28

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
― Anthony Trollope

tags: writing

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#29

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: misattributed, misattributed-lao-tzu

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#30

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
― Anonymous

tags: misattributed-anne-frank

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