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    Diana Vreeland
    “A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.”
    ― Diana Vreeland
    tags: fibbing, lying
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    “A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.”
    ― Christian D. Larson
    tags: choice, control, thinking
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    Carl Sagan
    “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Everything is theater.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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    W.H. Auden
    “You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
    ― Wystan Hugh Auden
    tags: human-nature, poetry
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    Jim Butcher
    “You can be as sincere as hell and still be wrong.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Small Favor
    tags: dresden-files, sincerity, wrongness
    52 likes

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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
    tags: heart, intelligence, mind, stupidity
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    Sigmund Freud
    “The ego is not master in its own house.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Fame is proof that people are gullible.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: fame, gullibility
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    Wallace Stevens
    “Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.”
    ― Wallace Stevens
    tags: accuracy, observation, thinking
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    George Orwell
    “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: intellectualism
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    William Faulkner
    “Memory believes before knowing remembers.”
    ― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
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    William Hazlitt
    “The world has been doing little else but playing at make-believe all its lifetime.”
    ― William Hazlitt
    tags: make-believe
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
    4209 likes

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    Pope John Paul II
    “Know what you are talking about.”
    ― Pope John Paul II
    tags: knowledge, language
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce
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    Marilynne Robinson
    “Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.”
    ― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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    Michael Jordan
    “I Own the guy guarding me”
    ― Michael Jordan
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Blame and praise have no true effects.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius
    tags: blame, praise
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    Diana Vreeland
    “People who eat white bread have no dreams.”
    ― Diana Vreeland
    tags: bread, dreams
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “A man is a god in ruins.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Douglas Adams
    “Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: reality
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    Aesop
    “It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard.”
    ― Aesop
    tags: god, prayer, praying
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    Shirley Abbott
    “We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.”
    ― Shirley Abbott
    tags: ancestry, family, history, knowledge
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    Tennessee Williams
    “Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.”
    ― Tennessee Williams
    tags: ego
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    Frank Herbert
    “The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: cleanliness, world
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “What we don't understand we can make mean anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk
    tags: superstition
    674 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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