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    Dan Brown
    “History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
    ― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
    tags: history, misattributed-napoleon-bonaparte
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    George R.R. Martin
    “And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: kingmanship
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    Dan Brown
    “Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
    tags: intellect, lost-symbol, research
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    Dan Brown
    “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
    tags: desire, fear, human-nature
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    Dan Brown
    “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: books, dan-brown, religion, science
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    Dan Brown
    “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
    ― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
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    Dan Brown
    “To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
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    Jacob Abbott
    “T he name of the father of Genghis Khan is a word which can not be pronounced exactly in English. It sounded something like this, Yezonkai Behadr,”
    ― Jacob Abbott, Genghis Khan
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    Jacob Abbott
    “Queen Mary was very beautiful, but she was very unfortunate and unhappy.”
    ― Jacob Abbott, Mary Queen of Scots
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    Marvin Bell
    “Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
    ― Marvin Bell
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, intelligence, wisdom
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    C.G. Jung
    “The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    J. Krishnamurti
    “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
    ― J. Krishnamurti
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    Tom Waits
    “The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
    ― Tom Waits
    tags: books, literature, writing
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    Siddhartha Mukherjee
    “In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher”
    ― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
    tags: cancer, data, god, science
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    “We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
    ― Vince Lombardi
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    “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
    ― Vince Lombardi
    tags: determination, perseverance, success
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    “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
    ― Vince Lombardi
    tags: football, inspirational, paradox, perseverance
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    “Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.”
    ― Vince Lombardi
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    علي بن أبي طالب
    “He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
    And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ”
    ― Ali Bin Abi Thalib
    tags: friendship
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    علي بن أبي طالب
    “Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.”
    ― Imam Ali
    tags: inspirational
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    Gayle Forman
    “Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.”
    ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: emotions, mercy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: cynic
    5363 likes



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