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#1

“This too shall pass.”
― Hakim Sanai

tags: endurance, proverbs

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#2

“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”
― Mark Twain

tags: blush, wordplay

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#3

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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#4

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

tags: life, self-actualization, unrealized-potential

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#5

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
― Archilochus

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#6

“Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: action, progress

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#7

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

tags: bible

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#8

“All would live long, but none would be old.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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#9

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: god, humor, money

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#10

“Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.”
― Robert Benchley

tags: humor

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#11

“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: self-discovery

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#12

“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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#13

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
― Mark Twain

tags: america, congress, corruption, government

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#14

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
― George McGovern

tags: anti-war, battle, death, old-men, peace, soldiers, war, youth

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#15

“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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#16

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

tags: nature, spring

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#17

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: originality

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#18

“Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.”
― Mae West

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#19

“We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.”
― Abigail Adams

tags: action, vocabulary, words

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#20

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Socrates

tags: marriage

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#21

“Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: humor, puns

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#22

“Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.”
― Laurence Sterne

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#23

“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ”
― Margaret Fuller

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#24

“Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.”
― Milton Berle

tags: definition, wordplay

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#25

“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

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#26

“Women like silent men. They think they're listening.”
― Marcel Achard

tags: gender-stereotypes, men-and-women

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#27

“It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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#28

“If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.”
― Henny Youngman

tags: humor

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#29

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”
― Anonymous, Bible

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#30

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
― James Thurber

tags: emotion, humour, memory

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