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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Mark Twain
    “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: conscience, humor, memory
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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Mark Twain
    “I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: books, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inspirational, kindness
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    Mark Twain
    “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: education
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “There's a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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    Mark Twain
    “I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: enlightening
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    Mark Twain
    “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #16
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.”
    ― Richard Feynman
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    Jane Austen
    “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
    ― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
    tags: humor
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    Jane Austen
    “I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: convoluted-speech, expression, humor, intelligibility, sarcasm
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty”
    ― Richard Feynman
    tags: nature, physics, richard-feynman
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    Franz Kafka
    “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

    [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “All language is but a poor translation.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    “I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.”
    ― Tina Fey
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    “Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: funny, politics, professionalism, prostitution, virtues
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Sherwood Smith
    “The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”
    ― Sherwood Smith
    tags: emotion, nature, rain
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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth. —NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, “The Custom-House”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
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