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  • #1
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #2
    Alan W. Watts
    “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
    Alan Watts

  • #3
    Martin Lindstrom
    “When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are.”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #4
    Martin Lindstrom
    “90 percent of all Gillette shavers are bought by women for the men in their lives”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #5
    Martin Lindstrom
    “Sex doesn't sell anything other than itself”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #6
    “There’s a reason prophets perform miracles: language lacks the power to describe faith. And you have to land on faith before you can even begin to hike around to its flip side, betrayal.”
    Moth Smoke (Hamid, Mohsin)

  • #7
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #8
    Toshikazu Kawaguchi
    “Even if I am dead, I want you to live with a smile on your face”
    Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before Your Memory Fades

  • #9
    Margaret Atwood
    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #10
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
    Georg Hegel

  • #11
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

  • #12
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

  • #13
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

  • #14
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Things always become obvious after the fact”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • #15
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone. What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library?"

    "Students," said Senior Wrangler morosely.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

  • #17
    Terry Pratchett
    “I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

  • #18
    Terry Pratchett
    “I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    tags: beer

  • #19
    Terry Pratchett
    “A man sits in some museum somewhere and writes a harmless book about political economy and suddenly thousands of people who haven’t even read it are dying because the ones who did haven’t got the joke. Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain calibre.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #20
    José Saramago
    “One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.”
    José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

  • #21
    José Saramago
    “Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.”
    José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

  • #22
    Guy de Maupassant
    “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
    Guy de Maupassant



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