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    Thomas Jefferson
    “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Selected Writings
    tags: intellectual-property
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    W.B. Yeats
    “...nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    tags: foster, journalists, yeats
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    Flann O'Brien
    “In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.”
    ― Flann O'Brien, The Best of Myles
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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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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Howard Zinn
    “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: nationalism, patriotism, war
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Gore Vidal
    “[Professor] Frank recalled my idle remark some years ago: 'Never pass up the opportunity to have sex or appear on television.' Advice I would never give today in the age of AIDS and its television equivalent Fox News.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Point to Point Navigation
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    Saki
    “I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.”
    ― Saki, Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches
    tags: posterity
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash 1929
    tags: crash, foolishness, wall-street, wisdom
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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
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    W.C. Fields
    “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: cooking, drinking, food, humor, wine
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    Gore Vidal
    “You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: novel, sentence, writers, writing
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    Patrick O'Brian
    “Jack, you've debauched my sloth.”
    ― Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise
    tags: debauched, drunk, sloth
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    Patrick O'Brian
    “That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.”
    ― Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World
    tags: jack-aubrey, stephen-maturin
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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