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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    tags: life
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    “It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
    ― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse
    tags: bravery, dog, famous, inspirational, misattributed-dwight-eisenhower, misattributed-mark-twain, valour
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    Mark Twain
    “I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor
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    Henri Bergson
    “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
    ― Henri Bergson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The ancestor of every action is a thought.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: actions-inspirational-action, ancestor, thoughts
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    Will Rogers
    “When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”
    ― Will Rogers
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    Anthony Powell
    “It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.”
    ― Anthony Powell
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    Conan O'Brien
    “When all else fails, there's always delusion.”
    ― Conan O'Brien
    tags: absurd, life
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    W.H. Auden
    “Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.”
    ― W.H. Auden
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    W.H. Auden
    “You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.”
    ― W.H. Auden
    tags: vocation
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    W.H. Auden
    “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
    ― W. H. Auden
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    Robert Frost
    “If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: laughter
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    tags: be-yourself, self-expression
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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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    Audrey Hepburn
    “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational
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    David Ben-Gurion
    “Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.”
    ― David Ben Gurion
    tags: misattributed-audrey-hepburn
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: beer
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle
    tags: capitalism, labor, work
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    Anatole France
    “Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ”
    ― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
    tags: labor, man, relaxation
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    Guillaume Apollinaire
    “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
    ― Guillaume Apollinaire
    tags: happiness, life
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: gonzo, happiness, risk
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    Douglas Adams
    “I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: happiness, rightness
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: danger, good, love, wild, win, yes
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    Lester Bangs
    “The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
    ― Lester Bangs
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