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crime-fiction‎ (303)
non-fiction‎ (258)
sci-fi‎ (213)
philosophy‎ (190)
audio‎ (155)
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classical‎ (112)

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ethics‎ (105)
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history‎ (92)
short-stories‎ (76)
humour‎ (69)
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psychology‎ (62)
stoicism‎ (61)
favorites‎ (60)
fantasy‎ (59)

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shakespeare‎ (49)
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language‎ (31)
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religion‎ (9)
epicureanism‎ (7)
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Steve’s Quotes

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: selfishness

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“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: dramatist-quotes

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“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: atheism, religion, skeptic

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“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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