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#1

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#3

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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#4

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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#5

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

tags: age, exercise, family, grandmothers, grandparents, humor, walking

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#6

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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#7

“Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

tags: exercise, habit, psychology

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#8

“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.”
― Hippocrates

tags: depression, exercise

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#9

“World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

tags: euphemism, logic, optimisation

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#10

“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky

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#11

“I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

tags: dark-side, organisation, rule-the-world, sense, universe

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#12

“Who are you?" he asked.
I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox

tags: evil-overlord, fun, humor, megalomania, world-domination

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#13

“One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.”
― Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible

tags: anger, masks, shut-up, supervillains, world-domination

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#14

“Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in your plans, so long as you could control them. It was all about control.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Awakening

tags: authority, dictator, evil-overlord, rule, tyranny

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#15

“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: taxes

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#16

“...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D ...: Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Literary, and Political Subjects ...

tags: 1789, certainty, taxes

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#17

“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

tags: civilization, taxes

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#18

“Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: existentialism, humanism, post-modernism

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#19

“it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.”
― Daisaku Ikeda

tags: buddhism, destiny, happiness, humanism, inspirational, karma, peace, self-reformation

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#20

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

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#21

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: acquiescence, authority, complicity, dissent, protest, silence

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#22

“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
― Tacitus

tags: anarchism, authority, paranoia

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#23

“The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set”
― Federico Fellini

tags: art, dictator, fellini, films, movie-set

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#24

“The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.”
― Alaa Al Aswany, On the State of Egypt: A Novelist's Provocative Reflections

tags: dictator, dictatorship

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#25

“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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#26

“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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#27

“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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#28

“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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#29

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#30

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

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