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#1

“No soup for you”
― Jerry Seinfeld

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#2

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

tags: opportunity, perseverance, wisdom

1408 likes

#3

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
― Samuel Butler

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#4

“Festivus for the Restivus!”
― Jerry Seinfeld

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#5

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#6

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
― Woodrow Wilson

tags: brains, intelligence

1258 likes

#7

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
― Woodrow Wilson

tags: animals, dogs

669 likes

#8

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
― Woodrow Wilson

tags: inspirational, leadership

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#9

“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
― Woodrow Wilson

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#10

“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
― Woodrow Wilson

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#11

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
― Woodrow Wilson

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#12

“I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!”
― Woodrow Wilson

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#13

“Only peace between equals can last.”
― Woodrow Wilson

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#14

“I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.”
― Lu T'ung

tags: awesomeness, tea

73 likes

#15

“Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve,
I want to tie the two arms together,
And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.”
― Robert Bly, The Night Abraham Called to the Stars: Poems

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#16

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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#17

“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

847 likes

#18

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading

5866 likes

#19

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

tags: books, humor, reading

4412 likes

#20

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom

8726 likes

#21

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

6788 likes

#22

“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

tags: hit, sages, thinking, violence

851 likes

#23

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31240 likes

#24

“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

tags: afternoon, schedule, tea, toast

851 likes

#25

“The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.”
― Dumas Malone, Jefferson the Virginian

tags: bold, boldness, courtesy, mind, politeness, scabbard, sheathed, thomas-jefferson

484 likes

#26

“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots

tags: reading

1866 likes

#27

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: heart, mind

3443 likes

#28

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: distance, time

3212 likes

#29

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

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#30

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

78300 likes

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