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“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: belief

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

tags: americans, geography, war

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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James A. Baldwin

tags: love

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“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
― Chris Rock

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#4

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom

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#5

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

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#6

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
― Herbert Hoover

tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth

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#7

“Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: sweetness

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#8

“Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?"

Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers."

You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?"

Well, there are only four horsemen.”
― Richelle Mead, Storm Born

tags: storm-born

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#9

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war

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#10

“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#11

“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue

tags: army, fighting, peace, soldiers, war

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“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”
― Garrison Keillor

tags: absurd, cats, humor

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#16

“No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

tags: absurd, humor, interrogation, police

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#17

“I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
― Woody Allen

tags: absurd, humor, music

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#18

“I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.”
― Jarod Kintz, I Want

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#19

“I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: absurd, gibe, insult

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#19

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed

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#20

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

tags: expectation, hope, life

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#20

“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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#21

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

tags: faith, god, hope, love

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“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
― Stephen King

tags: hope

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#23

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom

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#24

“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

tags: bruce-lee, fighting, jeet-kune-do, martial-arts

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#24

“Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
― Jon Stewart

tags: absurd, organized-religion, paradox, religion

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#25

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: goals, vision

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#27

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: productivity

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#28

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: bruce-lee

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#29

“The doubters said,
"Man can not fly,"
The doers said,
"Maybe, but we'll try,"
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: bruce-lee, doubters, inspirational

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