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#1

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: humor, philosophy

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#2

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

tags: misattributed-einstein

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#3

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

tags: humor, work

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#4

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

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#5

“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Stephen King, Storm of the Century

tags: god, humor, religion

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#6

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
― Dr. Seuss

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#7

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

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#8

“Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?"
"Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?"
"Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

tags: humor, true-love

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#9

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: humor, laughter

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#10

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: humor, philosophy

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#11

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
― Madonna

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#12

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

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#13

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
― Dr. Seuss

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#14

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: humor

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#15

“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”
― Robin Williams

tags: humor, men

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#16

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: frustration, humor, laughter

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#17

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: epigram, humor, men, women

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#18

“Are you always a smartass?'

Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

tags: humor, impudence, sarcasm, smartass

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#19

“As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: humor

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#20

“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

tags: history, humor, memory, recall

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#21

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

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#22

“To be is to do - Socrates

To do is to be - Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor

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#23

“Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

tags: alice, alice-in-wonderland, door, funny, humor, wordplay

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#24

“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

tags: humor

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#25

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: drinking, humor

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#26

“There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)”
― D. J. MacHale, The Quillan Games

tags: clowns, humor, people

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#27

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: disapproval, humor, wordplay

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#28

“In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: humor, jerks, science

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#29

“Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

tags: anime, emotions, funny, humor, manga, provoke, troublesome

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#30

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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