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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran
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  • #3
    Steve Jobs
    “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
    ― Steve Jobs
    tags: inspirational
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    Aaron Swartz
    “Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”
    ― Aaron Swartz
    tags: books, curiosity, reading
    207 likes

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  • #5
    Sarah Ban Breathnach
    “The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers
    But above all
    The world needs dreamers who do.”
    ― Sarah Ban Breathnach
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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “Disappear Here.
    The syringe fills with blood.
    You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters.
    Wonder if he's for sale.
    People are afraid to merge. To merge.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
    tags: dark, disturbing, ellis, nihilism
    156 likes

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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
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    Alan Moore
    “Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
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  • #10
    “If you don't build your dream someone else will hire you to help build theirs.”
    ― Tony Gaskins
    tags: build, dreams, future
    110 likes

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  • #11
    “ In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game! ”
    ― Julie Andrews
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    Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    “For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”
    ― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    tags: nature, ocean
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    Banksy
    “I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”
    ― Banksy
    tags: anonymity, fame, interview, invisibility, privacy, superpower, timeout
    113 likes

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  • #14
    “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
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  • #15
    Paulo Coelho
    “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
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  • #16
    Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    “When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself”
    ― Jacques Cousteau
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  • #17
    “Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.”
    ― James E. Starrs, The Literary Cyclist: Great Bicycling Scenes in Literature
    tags: bicycle, bike, melancholy
    8 likes

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  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: ideals, reality
    130 likes

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  • #19
    Seneca
    “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
    ― Seneca the Younger
    tags: goals
    797 likes

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    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
    tags: books, reading
    5868 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
    21820 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor
    9935 likes

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  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #24
    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
    tags: books, thought
    31229 likes

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  • #25
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    ― Rumi
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    Gérard de Nerval
    “Moi ? C'est une image que je poursuis, rien de plus.”
    ― Gérard de Nerval
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  • #27
    “Anyone who lives sees, but he who moves
    sees more.”
    ― Clinton Bailey
    tags: philosophy-in-desert
    5 likes

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  • #28
    Eartha Kitt
    “I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.”
    ― Eartha Kitt
    89 likes

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  • #29
    Anthony Burgess
    “This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    125 likes

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  • #30
    George Eliot
    “Don't judge a book by its cover”
    ― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
    tags: book, cover, judge
    195 likes



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