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#1

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: father, god, son

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#3

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

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#4

“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: education, libraries, self-education

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#5

“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. ”
― Ray Bradbury

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#6

“The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

tags: religion

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#7

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

tags: martyr, martyrdom, truth, tyrant

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#8

“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: insparational

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#9

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#10

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion

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#11

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

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#12

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
― Irina Dunn

tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem

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#13

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

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#14

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#15

“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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#16

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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#17

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#18

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

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#19

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, life

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#20

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge

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#21

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, inspirational

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#22

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

tags: clothing

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#23

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#24

“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
― Mark Twain

tags: books-bible

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#25

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bravery, character, courage, moral-courage

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#26

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
― Fred Rogers

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#27

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: advice, apology

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#28

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: death, life, wordplay

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#29

“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: christian-behavior, christmas, religion

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#30

“Well done is better than well said.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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