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    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “You know what I wisht I had, Ma? A pouch like a 'possum, to tote things.

    --The Yearling”
    ― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: beauty, enemies, friends, intellect, looks
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: intelligence, quotation, wit
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: consistency
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    Christopher Moore
    “People, generally, suck.”
    ― Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
    tags: humor
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    Brenda Ueland
    “The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. ”
    ― Brenda Ueland
    tags: writing
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start."

    (Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975)”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: creative-process, dialogue, writing
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  • #8
    “When Danger Lurks and your heart is racing, don't be afraid be amazing”
    ― Cuthbert Soup, A Whole Nother Story
    tags: inspirational
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Albert Einstein
    “Time is an illusion.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: relativity, time
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Albert Einstein
    “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, respect
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    Théophile Gautier
    “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
    ― Théophile Gautier
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “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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    Albert Einstein
    “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems
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    Albert Einstein
    “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: character, honesty, integrity
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    Albert Einstein
    “Love is a better master than duty.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: love
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    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: curiosity, philosophy, wonder
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  • #25
    “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
    ― Bob Samples
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    Albert Einstein
    “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: quotations
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    Albert Einstein
    “Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: enterprise, tenacity
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  • #28
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
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    Albert Einstein
    “Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #30
    Albert Einstein
    “When the solution is simple, God is answering.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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