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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: political-philosophy
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    Harry Truman
    “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
    ― Harry S. Truman
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli
    tags: daring, risk, success
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Hermann Hesse
    “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: desire, loneliness, love, lust, passion, sex
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Charles Bukowski
    “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #12
    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    ― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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  • #19
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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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
    60257 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Димитър Димов
    “С инстинкта си на пламенно същество тя усещаше, че любовта е трагично и силно чувство, което човек трябваше да уважава дори у глупавите хора.”
    ― Dimitar Dimov, Тютюн
    tags: Димитър-Димов, Ирина, Тютюн
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    ― E. E. Cummings
    tags: death, life, poetry
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  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
    tags: stupid-people, stupidity
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    Robert M. Pirsig
    “When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
    tags: atheism, god, religion
    1021 likes



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