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  • #1
    “Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be more lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
    ― Brad Pitt
    tags: brad-pitt, troy
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    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Lev Grossman
    “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
    ― Lev Grossman, The Magician King
    tags: difficulty, expectations, world
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    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

    —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1955, curiosity, mystery
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  • #5
    Compton Mackenzie
    “Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.”
    ― Compton Mackenzie
    tags: love, whiskey
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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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  • #7
    Homer
    “We men are wretched things.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
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  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
    ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
    tags: activism
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  • #10
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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  • #11
    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
    ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time
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  • #12
    William Shakespeare
    “What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: humankind, man
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  • #13
    Homer
    “No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
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  • #14
    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: philosophy, science
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    A.J. Darkholme
    “In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.”
    ― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
    tags: afterlife, age, aging, corruption, fear, insecurity, life, lifetime, scheme, shame, soul-searching, uncertain, uncertainty
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  • #16
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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  • #17
    Socrates
    “To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: death-and-dying, fear-of-death
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  • #18
    Wilkie Collins
    “The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: consistent, good-and-evil, mr-hartright
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    William Shakespeare
    “This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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  • #21
    Caspar David Friedrich
    “You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.”
    ― Caspar David Friedrich
    tags: asocial, misanthrope, misanthropy, people, society
    403 likes

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  • #22
    Bill Hicks
    “I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.”
    ― Bill Hicks
    tags: misanthropy, perspective
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  • #23
    André Malraux
    “What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
    ― André Malraux
    tags: misanthropy
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  • #24
    Novala Takemoto
    “Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell”
    ― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)
    tags: misanthropy, people
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  • #25
    Emil M. Cioran
    “The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.”
    ― Emil Cioran
    tags: misanthropy, reproduction
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  • #26
    Jim Butcher
    “You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
    tags: evil, good, good-and-evil, humor, morality
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  • #27
    Terry Pratchett
    “I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: cynicism, good-and-evil, idealism, politics, vetinari
    414 likes

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  • #28
    Andrew Klavan
    “A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you'll choose the feather every single time.”
    ― Andrew Klavan, The Truth of the Matter
    tags: bad, black-and-white, evil, good, good-and-evil, right, wrong
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  • #29
    Sheri Holman
    “Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.”
    ― Sheri Holman, The Dress Lodger
    tags: bad, good-and-evil, greater-good
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    Carl Sagan
    “Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
    tags: good-and-evil, science
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