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    Abdurahman Faiz
    “Bunda,
    engkau adalah puisi abadi
    yang tak pernah kutemukan dalam buku...”
    ― Abdurahman Faiz, Untuk Bunda dan Dunia
    tags: ibu
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “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
    60331 likes

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  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92351 likes

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  • #4
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
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  • #5
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    38005 likes

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  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-heaven
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    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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  • #9
    Abdurahman Faiz
    “Aku selalu bermimpi
    matahari melahirkan para guru
    dan guru melahirkan para matahari...”
    ― Abdurahman Faiz, Guru Matahari
    tags: guru
    46 likes

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  • #10
    Douglas Adams
    “First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: computer, science, technology
    535 likes

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  • #11
    Michael Crichton
    “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
    ― Michael Crichton, State of Fear
    tags: bigotry, fiction, prejudice, science
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  • #12
    David Byrne
    “Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”
    ― David Byrne
    tags: love
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  • #13
    W.C. Fields
    “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: cooking, drinking, food, humor, wine
    1078 likes

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  • #14
    Charles de Gaulle
    “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
    ― Charles de Gaulle
    tags: cheese, diversity, divisiveness, food, france, politics
    504 likes

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    Abdurahman Faiz
    “Merah putih masih merayap gelisah
    mencari Hatta dalam jiwa dua ratus juta kita.”
    ― Abdurahman Faiz, Nadya: Kisah dari Negeri yang Menggigil
    tags: indonesia
    45 likes

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  • #16
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
    16947 likes

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  • #17
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: fiction, humor, lying, on-fiction, writing
    362 likes

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    George Lucas
    “Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose”
    ― George Lucas
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  • #19
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
    10124 likes

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  • #20
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “My Life is My Message”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: inspirational-quotes
    903 likes

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  • #21
    Steve Wozniak
    “Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window”
    ― Steve Wozniak
    tags: aphorism, computer
    72 likes

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  • #22
    Homer
    “I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!”
    ― Homer
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  • #23
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
    tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication
    1665 likes

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  • #24
    Helen Keller
    “The highest result of education is tolerance”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: tolerance
    603 likes

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  • #25
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “zaman modern telah membawa geografi bumi ke dekat kita,tetapi membuat kita kesulitan untuk saling berhubungan dengan manusia”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
    21119 likes

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  • #27
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
    25656 likes

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  • #28
    “When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day”
    ― Sam Ewing
    tags: humor, mother
    116 likes

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  • #29
    Harold Bloom
    “Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
    ― Harold Bloom
    tags: books, literature, reading, solitude, words
    448 likes

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  • #31
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: reminding
    6039 likes



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