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“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

tags: feminism, qotd

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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

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#3

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#4

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
― Albert Einstein

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#5

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read

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#6

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational

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#7

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#8

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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#9

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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#10

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes

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#11

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

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#12

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

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#13

“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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#14

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor

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#15

“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”
― Albert Einstein

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#16

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom

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#17

“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
― Albert Einstein

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#18

“God does not play dice with the universe.”
― Albert Einstein, The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55

tags: quantum-physics, science

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#19

“Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.”
― Ray Cummings, The Girl in the Golden Atom

tags: time

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#20

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: technology

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#21

“Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
― Charles de Lint, Moonheart

tags: qotd, wonders

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#22

“The trick was to let everyone think that I couldn’t feel at all. The trick was to make everyone believe that I was only what they made of me.”
― Melody Manful, Dominion

tags: dominion, guardian-angels, melody-manful, paranormal-ya

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#23

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

tags: books, power

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#24

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom

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#25

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: encouragement, gandalf

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#26

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

tags: irony, life, loneliness

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#27

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: philosophy, poetry

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#28

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

tags: life, world

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#29

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: memories

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#30

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: conscience, politics, right

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