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    Ken Kesey
    “It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
    ― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale
    tags: enlightenment, existence
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    Ruskin Bond
    “To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”
    ― Ruskin Bond
    tags: animals, man
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    Carl Sagan
    “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: love, mercy
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
    ― Abraham Maslow
    tags: tools
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    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
    tags: carpe-diem, future, present
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth
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    Napoleon Hill
    “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
    ― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
    tags: inspirational
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains
    tags: common-sense, wisdom
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    Doris Lessing
    “Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
    ― Doris Lessing
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton
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    José Saramago
    “Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
    ― Jose Saramago
    1987 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
    6852 likes

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    Charles de Lint
    “Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
    ― Charles de Lint, Moonheart
    tags: qotd, wonders
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    Rebecca West
    “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
    ― Rebecca West
    tags: feminism, qotd
    3081 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: advice, dark-night-of-the-soul, depression, practicality, problem
    709 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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    Philip K. Dick
    “If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: humor, irony, optimism, pessimism, schizophrenia, universe
    609 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “Everything in life is just for a while.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
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    Philip K. Dick
    “I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
    ― Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip
    tags: loneliness, optimism, responsibility, time
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    Philip K. Dick
    “When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
    tags: behavior, history, psychology, self-deception
    573 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: cosmos, ego, infinity, introspection, meditation, self
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: happiness
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    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: friendship
    7667 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    176994 likes



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