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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
    tags: comedy, life, tragedy
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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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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “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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    Allen Saunders
    “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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    Criss Jami
    “An assumption is the joke; truth the punchline.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: assumptions, comedian, comedy, discernment, feelings, funny, funny-but-true, guess, humor, hypothesis, intelligence, intuition, joke, judgment, knowledge, prejudgment, punch-line, punchline, satire, shock, surprise, truth, unpredictable, wisdom
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    Horace Walpole
    “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
    ― Horace Walpole
    tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy
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    J.R. Ward
    “You are a manipulator.
    I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”
    ― J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal
    tags: brothers, comedy, dark, euphemism, label, manipulation
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    Quentin Crisp
    “I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.”
    ― Quentin Crisp
    tags: absurdism, atheism, humour, inspirational, prayer
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    George Carlin
    “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

    But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: atheism, humor, life, religion
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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Epicurus
    “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: atheism, religion
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: atheism, organized-religion, religion
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor, taste
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history, humor, writing
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: fools, humility
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
    ― Winston Churchhill
    tags: giving
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: inspirational, life, winning
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: fanaticism, zealot
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

    [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, Wealth, War and Wisdom
    tags: admiration, classic-insult, vice, virtue
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: analogy, public-speaking, simile, speaking
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: distractions
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop."

    [New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: criticism
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