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    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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    Victor Hugo
    “An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three
    tags: hell, intelligent, paradise, stupid
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
    tags: inspirational
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    Isaac Newton
    “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
    ― Isaac Newton
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fate, humor, simile
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
    ― Daphne Rae, Love Until It Hurts: The Work of Mother Teresa and Her Missionaries of Charity
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: human-nature
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance
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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    ― James Baldwin
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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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    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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    Aldous Huxley
    “That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies
    tags: equality, sanity
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    Nicole Krauss
    “there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: comfort, sad, sadness
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
    " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas
    tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom
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    W.H. Auden
    “You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
    ― Wystan Hugh Auden
    tags: human-nature, poetry
    517 likes

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    Cassandra Clare
    “You're an idiot."
    "I've never claimed to be otherwise.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: humor, idiocy
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: evil, religious-conviction
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas
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    Bill Maher
    “The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."

    (The Decider, July 21, 2007)”
    ― Bill Maher
    tags: dunning-kruger-effect
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    Bill Watterson
    “In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: humor, jerks, science
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    Bill Watterson
    “Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: inspirational, recreation
    783 likes



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