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#1

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
― Gerald R. Ford

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#2

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world

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#3

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: certainty, perspective, presumption, questioning

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#4

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
― Bertrand Russell

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#5

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

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#6

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased

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#7

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein

tags: science

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#8

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

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#9

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: misattributed-to-einstein

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#10

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor, science

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#11

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: funny

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#12

“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: reading

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#13

“Art is not a thing; it is a way. ”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#14

“If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: humor

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#15

“Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#16

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#17

“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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#18

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

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#19

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#20

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

tags: books, literacy, reading

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#21

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#22

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#23

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#24

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

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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

“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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#27

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

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#28

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

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#29

“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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#30

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
― Lillian Hellman

tags: integrity

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