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#1

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

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#2

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: cooking, drinking, food, humor, wine

1078 likes

#3

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

tags: magic, science, technology, wonder

1773 likes

#4

“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”
― P.C. Cast, Betrayed

tags: inspirational

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#5

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.

[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

tags: education, intellectuals, intelligence

433 likes

#6

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: customer-service, knowledge

1465 likes

#7

“It may be that our role on this planet
is not to worship God--but to create him.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

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#8

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

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#9

“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”
― John C. Maxwell

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#10

“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: intelligence, survival

168 likes

#11

“Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: cosmology

94 likes

#12

“I like children. If they're properly cooked.”
― W. C. Fields

tags: children

139 likes

#13

“Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think ...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.”
― M.C. Escher

100 likes

#15

“Science is the only religion of mankind.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

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#16

“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
― John C. Maxwell

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#17

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: motivational

2251 likes

#18

“Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: belief, drinking, humor

328 likes

#19

“True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.”
― John C. Maxwell

69 likes

#21

“Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

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#22

“The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

tags: humor

695 likes

#23

“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money”
― W.C. Fields

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#24

“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century

tags: life, principles, reason

88 likes

#25

“Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.”
― Leo Rosten

tags: animals, children, humor, w-c-fields

43 likes

#26

“I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there”
― Bukowski C.

173 likes

#27

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: beginning, plato, republic

500 likes

#28

“We will either find a way or make one.”
― Hannibal

51 likes

#29

“This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.”
― Arthur C Clarke

82 likes

#30

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

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#31

“I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.”
― M.C. Escher

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#32

“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: technology, wisdom

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