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    Arundhati Roy
    “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
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    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music, philosophy, progress
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    Frank Zappa
    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: be-yourself, life, self-determination
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    Frank Zappa
    “I'm vile and perverted.
    I'm obsessed and deranged.
    I've existed for years but very little has changed.
    I'm the tool of the government and industry too.
    For I'm destined to rule and regulate you.
    You may think I'm pernicious, but you can't look away.
    I'll make you think I'm delicious with the stuff that I say.
    I'm the best you can get... have you guessed me yet?
    I'm the slime oozing out of your TV set....”
    ― Frank Zappa
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    Frank Zappa
    “A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.”
    ― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
    tags: comedy, drugs
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    Frank Zappa
    “A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: humor
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    Frank Zappa
    “A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.”
    ― Frank Zappa
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: mistakes
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: humour, life
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: life
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: teaching
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: inspirational
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: silence, understand
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: perception, silence
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    Edith Sitwell
    “My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
    ― Edith Sitwell
    tags: hobbies, music, reading, silence
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    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
    ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    tags: companionship, marriage, silence, talk
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: acquiescence, authority, complicity, dissent, protest, silence
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    Miguel de Unamuno
    “At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”
    ― Miguel de Unamuno
    tags: lies, lying, reason, silence, truth
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    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
    ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    tags: censorship, lies, lying, silence, truth
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “A nervous silence loosens tongues”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen
    tags: intimidation, nervous, politics, sex, silence, tongues
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    David Levithan
    “We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.”
    ― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
    tags: silence
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  • #29
    “Cake or death?”
    ― Eddie Izzard
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  • #30
    Elbert Hubbard
    “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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