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    Brian Herbert
    “Aristotle raped reason. He implanted in the dominant schools of philosophy the attractive belief that there can be discrete separation between mind and body. This led quite naturally to corollary delusions such as the one that power can be understood without applying it, or that joy is totally removable from unhappiness, that peace can exist in the total absence of war, or that life can be understood without death.
    —ERASMUS, Corrin Notes”
    ― Brian Herbert, The Butlerian Jihad
    tags: body-mind, duality, philosophy
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    Brian Herbert
    “Some say it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. That is a defeatist attitude. I intend to rule everywhere, not just in Hell."
    - General Agamemnon
    New Memoirs”
    ― Brian Herbert, The Battle of Corrin
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: death, love
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    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I don't want to die without any scars.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: death, scars, tyler-durden
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: death
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: heartbreak
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    Mark Twain
    “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-facts
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    Mark Twain
    “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: happiness, sanity
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The things you used to own, now they own you.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: own, things
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
    Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
    This is all practice.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: life
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: weather
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-satan
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism, politics
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: identity, originality
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: love
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    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: life
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: love
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: hate, self-loathing
    2878 likes



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