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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
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    George Mallory
    “We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.”
    ― George Lee Mallory
    tags: happiness, life, money, work
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Bob Dylan
    “Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
    ― Bob Dylan
    tags: beautiful, behind, kind, of, pain, thing
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    John Keats
    “Ay, in the very temple of Delight
    Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine,
    Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue
    Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine;
    His soul shall taste the sadness of her might,
    And be among her cloudy trophies hung.”
    ― John Keats, The Complete Poems
    tags: melancholy
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    Émilie du Châtelet
    “If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.”
    ― Émilie Du Châtelet, Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings
    tags: computer-programming, engineering, math, passonate-minds, rights, science, voltaire, women
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  • #7
    Voltaire
    “Dare to think for yourself.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: freedom-of-thought
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: doing-right, goodness, integrity
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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    Alice Roberts
    “If you happen to be one of the people who has a split zygomaticus major muscle, where the lower part of it is tethered to the overlying skin, this will create a dimple in your cheek when you smile.”
    ― Alice Roberts, The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
    tags: biology, dimples
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    Alice Roberts
    “a human baby is born expecting culture just as a fish is born expecting water.”
    ― Alice Roberts, The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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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    Julian Barnes
    “What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    tags: memory, nostalgia
    674 likes

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    Julian Barnes
    “The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: government, patriotism, politics
    349 likes

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    Julian Barnes
    “A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: disappointment
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    Julian Barnes
    “The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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    Julian Barnes
    “When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”
    ― Julian Barnes
    tags: books, reading
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  • #20
    Alastair Reynolds
    “A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.”
    ― Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World
    tags: politics, sf, social-commentary
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  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
    12464 likes

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  • #22
    “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
    ― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein
    tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: love, misery
    674 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: adventures, comfort, contrast, freedom, meals, pain
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: cats, lies
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: life-memories
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Morgan Wright
    “I think that a true writer will keep on writing, no matter what. Even if they don’t get published, even if they’re constantly faced with criticism… they’ll keep writing. The act is essential to a writer’s existence. Without it, life would have no meaning.”
    ― Morgan Wright, Calendar for Writers: 2019-2020: A Two-Year Notebook for Your Creative Writing
    tags: inspirational, motivational, writers, writerslife, writing
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