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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#2

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#3

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
― Mark Twain

tags: conscience, humor, memory

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#4

“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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#5

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#6

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#7

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

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#8

“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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#9

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, kindness

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#10

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

tags: education

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#11

“There's a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#12

“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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#13

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
― Mark Twain

tags: enlightening

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#14

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#15

“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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#17

“I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.”
― Richard Feynman

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#18

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

tags: humor

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#19

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: convoluted-speech, expression, humor, intelligibility, sarcasm

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#20

“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#21

“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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#22

“Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty”
― Richard Feynman

tags: nature, physics, richard-feynman

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#23

“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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#24

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

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#25

“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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#26

“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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#27

“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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#28

“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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#29

“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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#30

“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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