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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: humor, ignorance, knowledge, wisdom
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    Victor Hugo
    “There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world , and that is an idea whose time has come”
    ― Victor Hugo
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    Susan Sontag
    “...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    D.A. Holdsworth
    “History is the long slow process of turning psychopaths from warriors into corporate directors.”
    ― D.A. Holdsworth
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    D.A. Holdsworth
    “All art is either great - or someone else's fantasy.”
    ― D.A. Holdsworth
    tags: art, books, humor, literature, movies, truth, wisdom, writing
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    D.A. Holdsworth
    “True grown-ups are thoroughly childlike.”
    ― D.A. Holdsworth
    tags: children, humor, humour, inspirational, life, life-experience, life-lessons, wisdom
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Anthony Trollope
    “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
    ― Anthony Trollope
    tags: writing
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    William Shakespeare
    “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: bereavement, grief, loss, mourning, sadness, sorrow, words
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    D.A. Holdsworth
    “Poetry: The one art form where people have as much admiration for the audience as the artist.”
    ― D.A. Holdsworth
    tags: humor, poetry, writing
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    Leonard Bernstein
    “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
    ― Leonard Bernstein
    tags: humor, stress
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  • #12
    “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”
    ― Madonna
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    Joan Didion
    “There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.”
    ― Joan Didion
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    Michael Lewis
    “Many sentences popped out of Amos’s mouth that Redelmeier knew he would forever remember: A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said. The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small. So many problems occur when people fail to be obedient when they are supposed to be obedient, and fail to be creative when they are supposed to be creative. The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours. It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place. Redelmeier”
    ― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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    Margaret Atwood
    “There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
    ― Margaret Atwood , Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
    tags: authors, disappointment, epigrams, fandom, on-writing, similes, writers
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hatred, wisdom
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    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
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    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: confidence
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    George Lucas
    “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
    ― George Lucas
    tags: inspiration, star-wars
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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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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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64582 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46416 likes



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