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    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
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    Anne Frank
    “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
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    Confucius
    “He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: wisdom
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    Confucius
    “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: foolishness, other-people
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    Confucius
    “Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: كنفسيوس
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    Confucius
    “You cannot open a book without learning something.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: books, learning, philosopher
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    Confucius
    “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
    ― Confucius
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    Confucius
    “The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
    ― Confucius
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    Confucius
    “Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: education, enduring-good, generosity, life, wise-advice, work
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    Confucius
    “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
    ― Confucius
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    Confucius
    “If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. ”
    ― Confucius
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    Confucius
    “In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.”
    ― Confucius
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    Confucius
    “By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”
    ― Confucius
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    Joseph Goldstein
    “Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.

    'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom”
    ― Joseph Goldstein
    tags: guilt, inspirational
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    Joseph Goldstein
    “On the deepest level, problems such as war and starvation are not solved by economics and politics alone. Their source is prejudice and fear in the human heart — and their solution also lies in the human heart.”
    ― Joseph Goldstein, The Path of Insight Meditation
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Emily Dickinson
    “A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Emily Dickinson
    “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: life, love
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    Emily Dickinson
    “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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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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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
    Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
    Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
    Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
    Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
    Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
    Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Yasalar Üzerine
    tags: commandments, essential, justice, law, reason, society
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “Only one woman exists in this world, one woman with countless faces.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
    tags: women
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
    tags: spirituality
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