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    George Bernard Shaw
    “When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married
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    “I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.”
    ― Tim Burton
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    Kōbō Abe
    “The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”
    ― Kobo Abe
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    Ayn Rand
    “I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: atlas-shrugged, ayn-rand, galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: adaptation, change, open-mindedness, self-improvement
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
    tags: motivational, overcoming-obstacles
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
    tags: arrogance, ignorance, politicians, politics
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: ideas
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: dance, dancing, definition, innuendo, sex, widely-misattributed, wordplay
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island
    tags: humor
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: funny, humor, optimism, pessimism
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    ― Colette
    tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom
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    Joseph Campbell
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: change, life, open-heart, open-mind, resilience
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    Paulo Coelho
    “There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
    But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
    tags: encouragement, wisdom
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    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom
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    Robert Frost
    “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: new-england-wisdom
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days
    tags: foolishness, inspirational
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    T.E. Lawrence
    “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
    ― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
    tags: dreamers, dreaming, dreams, open-eyes, open-mind
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    Criss Jami
    “Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: challenge, children, curiosity, education, history, humility, imagination, inquiry, intelligence, knowledge, not-knowing, philosophy, questions, science, theology, uncertainty, wisdom
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    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.”
    ― Henry Miller
    tags: books, debate-fodder, intelligence, reading, wisdom
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    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.”
    ― Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ
    tags: catholic, catholicism, life, p364, tolerance, wisdom
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