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    John Steinbeck
    “For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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    Voltaire
    “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, voltaire
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: sleep
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    Charlie Chaplin
    “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
    ― Charlie Chaplin
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    Albert Einstein
    “If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: life
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    Barry M. Goldwater
    “Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.”
    ― Barry Goldwater
    tags: christianity, compromise, god, lobbying, politics, preachers, religion, republicans
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    Thelonious Monk
    “A genius is the one most like himself.”
    ― Thelonious Monk
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I'd rather have written 'Cheers' than anything I've written.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
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    George Carlin
    “Meow” means “woof” in cat.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, humor, language
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    Agnes Sligh Turnbull
    “Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”
    ― Agnes Sligh Turnbull
    tags: dogs
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    “Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.”
    ― Al Capone
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Portable Jack Kerouac
    tags: altruism, enlightenment, fulfillment, heaven, kindness, living-outside-yourself, meaning, purpose, salvation
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: albert-scheweitzer, animal-rights, animals, compassion
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea
    tags: time
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    E.B. White
    “Analyzing humor is like disecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: humor
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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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    Henry David Thoreau
    “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: afford, let-alone, natural, rich, wealth
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    James Altucher
    “When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.”
    ― James Altucher
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    Rod Serling
    “We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.”
    ― Rod Serling
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    Seán O'Casey
    “That’s the Irish People all over - they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing.”
    ― Seán O'Casey, The Shadow of a Gunman
    tags: irish
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: living
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    Woody Allen
    “Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: life
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    “Trying is the first step towards failure”
    ― Homer Simpson
    tags: failure, humour, success
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    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
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    H.L. Mencken
    “No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, The Gist of Mencken: Quotations from America's Critic
    tags: democracy, gullibility, public-opinion
    96 likes



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