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#1

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

23461 likes

#2

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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#3

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

tags: clothing

3691 likes

#4

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

6854 likes

#5

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

tags: principia, science

2219 likes

#6

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: language, new-year, voice, words

4189 likes

#7

“Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

1403 likes

#8

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspiration

4207 likes

#9

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

4287 likes

#10

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

2632 likes

#11

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

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#12

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

3589 likes

#13

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

2475 likes

#14

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

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#15

“La seguridad de saberme capaz para algo mejor, me puso en las manos la postergación, que al fin de cuentas es un arma terrible y suicida.”
― Mario Benedetti, La tregua

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#16

“En política latinoamericana la cosa no es poder ni querer sino joder.”
― Mario Benedetti

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#17

“To be useful, your beliefs should be constrained by the logic of probability.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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#18

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: psychology, science, social-behavior

929 likes

#19

“Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.”
― Lu Xun

tags: chinese-quote, facts, lu-xun

635 likes

#20

“For people to accept the yoke, they must believe they have no choice.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

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#21

“TV-based politics is to political action as watching ER is to saving someone in distress.”
― Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone

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#22

“Social dislocation can easily breed a reactionary form of nostalgia.”
― Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone

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#23

“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
― Alfred Tennyson

tags: deception, lying

716 likes

#24

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

tags: wisdom

6116 likes

#25

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: close-mindedness, simile, stubbornness

917 likes

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