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#1

“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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#2

“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
― Dorothea Lange

1215 likes

#3

“Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

tags: first, idiot, rincewind, tourism, twoflower

312 likes

#4

“Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

tags: hard-boiled-humor, marlowe, raymond-chandler

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#5

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: afterlife, atheism, humanism, secularism

2186 likes

#6

“A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: grammar, writing-advice

146 likes

#7

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#8

“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#9

“Oh, yes, dear reader: the essay is alive. There is no reason to despair.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: essays, virginia-woolf

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#10

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, dreams

1531 likes

#11

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge

2262 likes

#12

“God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: bully, children, mean, pugnacious, revenge, standards

585 likes

#13

“Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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#14

“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
― Margaret Sanger

tags: feminism, human-rights, motherhood

97 likes

#15

“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: friendship, frodo

3559 likes

#16

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
― Samuel Adams

tags: government, liberty, patriotism

230 likes

#17

“All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

tags: division, unity

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