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    Alysha Speer
    “You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.”
    ― Alysha Speer
    tags: adversity, coping, drown, enduring, free, hope, life, live, surf, surfing, trials, water, wave, waves
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    Douglas Adams
    “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humor, philosophy, science-fiction
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
    tags: flight, flying, hg2g, humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic
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    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: design, foolproof, ingenuity
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    Douglas Adams
    “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: atheism, religion, skeptic
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    Douglas Adams
    “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: humor, novelist, science-fiction
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    Douglas Adams
    “I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: happiness, rightness
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    Terry Pratchett
    “That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we'll never know.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
    tags: discworld, terry-pratchett, vimes
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Sometimes the moon is light and sometimes it's in shadow, but you should always remember it's the same moon.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: a-hat-full-of-sky, discworld, moon, moon-quotes, pterry, terry-pratchett, tiffany-aching, witches
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Humans take. They plough with iron. They ravage the land.'
    'Some do, I'll grant you that. Others put back more'n they take. They put back love. They've got soil in their bones.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: discworld, esme-weatherwax, granny-weatherwax, humans, lords-and-ladies, terry-pratchett
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    Jane Austen
    “I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.”
    ― george knightley, Emma
    tags: emma, jane-austen, mr-knightley
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-heaven
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
    ― oscar wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: drama, humor, plays
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    3615 likes



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