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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
    ― Emil Cioran
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
    ― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
    tags: suicide
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
    ― Emil Cioran
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “What do you do from morning to night?"

    "I endure myself.”
    ― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”
    ― Emil Cioran
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
    ― Richard Feyman
    tags: questions
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    “I am not afraid of retaliations. I don’t have kids. I don’t have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I’d rather die standing than live on my knees.”
    ― Stephane Charbonnier
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    André Gide
    “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
    ― André Gide
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    John Oliver
    “France is going to endure, and I’ll tell you [ISIS people who attacked Paris ] why. If you’re in a war of culture and lifestyle with France, good fucking luck, because go ahead, bring your bankrupt ideology. They’ll bring Jean-Paul Sartre, Edith Piaf, fine wine, Camus, Camembert, madeleines, macarons, Marcel Proust and the fucking croquembouche. You just brought a philosophy of rigorous self-abnegation to a pastry fight, my friend. You are fucked.”
    ― John Oliver
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    John Oliver
    “If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring. Apple could put the entire text of "Mein Kampf" inside the iTunes user agreement, and you'd just go agree, agree, agree - what? - agree, agree.”
    ― John Oliver
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    John Oliver
    “The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.”
    ― John Oliver
    tags: anger, german, german-language, germany, humor, poetry
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: forgiveness, vigilance
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    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [Remarks on the first
    “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

    [Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: peacefulness, political-rights, protest, revolution, violence
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: difference
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  • #15
    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
    ― Plato
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    Epicurus
    “Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: awful, death, inspirational, peace, philosophy, serenity, wisdom
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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    Isaac Asimov
    “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: humor, writing
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: education, learning, lifelong-learning, self-education
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    Aesop
    “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
    ― Aesop
    tags: humor
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  • #23
    Chris Rock
    “Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
    ― Chris Rock
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  • #24
    Adam Savage
    “When in doubt, C-4.”
    ― Adam Savage
    tags: mythbuster, science
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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: funny, humanity, humor
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    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
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    George Carlin
    “Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: common-sense, equality, feminism, humanism, humor, inspirational, men-and-women
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    George Carlin
    “I don't have pet peeves - I have major psychotic fucking hatreds.”
    ― George Carlin
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  • #30
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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