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  • #1
    Jerry Seinfeld
    “No soup for you”
    Jerry Seinfeld

  • #2
    Francis Bacon
    “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
    Francis Bacon, The Essays

  • #3
    Samuel Butler
    “Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
    Samuel Butler

  • #4
    Jerry Seinfeld
    “Festivus for the Restivus!”
    Jerry Seinfeld

  • #5
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “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

  • #6
    Woodrow Wilson
    “I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
    Woodrow Wilson

  • #7
    Woodrow Wilson
    “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

  • #8
    Woodrow Wilson
    “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

  • #9
    Woodrow Wilson
    “The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
    Woodrow Wilson

  • #10
    Woodrow Wilson
    “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
    Woodrow Wilson

  • #11
    Woodrow Wilson
    “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
    Woodrow Wilson

  • #12
    Woodrow Wilson
    “I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!”
    Woodrow Wilson

  • #13
    Woodrow Wilson
    “Only peace between equals can last.”
    Woodrow Wilson

  • #14
    “I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.”
    Lu T'ung

  • #15
    Robert  Bly
    “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

  • #16
    Charles Dickens
    “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

  • #17
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • #18
    Mortimer J. Adler
    “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

  • #19
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “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

  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #21
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “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

  • #22
    Susan Sontag
    “To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
    Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #24
    Wilkie Collins
    “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #25
    Dumas Malone
    “The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.”
    Dumas Malone, Jefferson the Virginian

  • #26
    Jasper Fforde
    “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

  • #27
    Milan Kundera
    “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #28
    Tennessee Williams
    “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
    Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

  • #29
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

  • #30
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “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



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