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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
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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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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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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    Arthur Miller
    “Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
    ― Arthur Miller
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    R.A. Salvatore
    “A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie”
    ― R.A. Salvatore, The Pirate King
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    Douglas Adams
    “It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humour
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    David Eddings
    “God save us from religion.”
    ― David Eddings
    tags: inspirational, organized-religion, savior
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    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
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    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Groucho Marx
    “When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: friends, humor, jail
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    Groucho Marx
    “Humor is reason gone mad.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humor, reason
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    Groucho Marx
    “From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading
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    Groucho Marx
    “I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.”
    ― Groucho Marx, Groucho and Me
    tags: clique, clubs, humor, membership
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    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
    ― Ernest Benn
    tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems
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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32148 likes

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  • #22
    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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  • #23
    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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  • #24
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
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    Daniel Suarez
    “In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade.
    But he looked good. Casual.”
    ― Daniel Suarez, Daemon
    tags: fashion, humor
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    Daniel Suarez
    “Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true. But, no job is perfect.”
    ― Daniel Suarez, Daemon
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    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
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    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    ― Niels Bohr
    tags: science
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
    5985 likes



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