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“فصل عوض می‌شود
جای آلو را
خرمالو می‌گیرد
جای دلتنگی را
دلتنگی”
― علیرضا روشن

“جای مردان سیاست بنشانید درخت / تا هوا تازه شود”
― سهراب سپهری

“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Because paper has more patience than people. ”
― Anne Frank

“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
― Anne Frank

“There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.”
― Anne Frank

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
― Philip Pullman

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
― John Green

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity”
― Tom Peters

“خیام اگر ز باده مستی خوش باش

با لاله رخی اگر نشستی خوش باش

چون عاقبت کار جهان نیستی است

انگار که نیستی چو هستی خوش باش”
― صادق هدایت, مردی که نفسش را کشت

“It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.”
― Aldous Huxley

“There are no limits, except for those we impose upon ourselves.”
― Dr. Walter Bishop

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”
― Stephen Hawking

“کتاب‌فروشی‌ها ارزشمندترین مقصد افراد تنها است. گواه این امر تعداد کتاب‌هایی است که علت نگارش آن‌ها این بوده که نویسندگانشان کسی را برای حرف زدن پیدا نکرده‌اند.”
― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy / Status Anxiety