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    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: morality, organized-religion, religion
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    Deborah Harkness
    “Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,”
    ― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches
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    Mark Twain
    “Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Desmond Morris
    “...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.”
    ― Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal
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    Desmond Morris
    “Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.”
    ― Desmond Morris
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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
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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  • #10
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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  • #11
    John Gray
    “Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.”
    ― John Gray, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: attitude, explain, gossip, life, people, public-opinion, time, wisdom
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  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: goals
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    Aaron Swartz
    “Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.”
    ― Aaron Swartz
    tags: creativity
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    Aaron Swartz
    “Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”
    ― Aaron Swartz
    tags: books, curiosity, reading
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Some party hack decreed that the people
    had lost the government's confidence
    and could only regain it with redoubled effort.
    If that is the case, would it not be be simpler,
    If the government simply dissolved the people
    And elected another?”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    tags: confidence, election, government, people
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    Winston Churchill
    “Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: history, peace, war, wisdom
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    Steve Jobs
    “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
    ― Steve Jobs
    tags: death, life, r-i-p, steve
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
    tags: heart, infidelity, relationships, seasons, summer
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    Desmond Morris
    “The word ‘love’ is, in fact, the way we commonly describe the emotional feelings that accompany the imprinting process.”
    ― Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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  • #24
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Charlton Heston
    “Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”
    ― Charlton Heston
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    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    ― François Rabelais
    tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: analogy, public-speaking, simile, speaking
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    Douglas Adams
    “I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
    1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
    2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
    3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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    Steve Jobs
    “Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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