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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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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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  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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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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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inspirational
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  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    tags: death, humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: humor, science
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
    tags: books, humor
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  • #17
    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
    "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
    "What?"
    "Oh, you'd like something simpler?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
    tags: absurd, humor, interrogation, police
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  • #19
    Terry Pratchett
    “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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  • #20
    Terry Pratchett
    “And what would humans be without love?"
    RARE, said Death.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
    tags: humor, life, movies
    1275 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
    tags: conservation, environmentalism, humor
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  • #23
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: most-famous-novella
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  • #24
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: reminding
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: butterflies, caterpillars, philosophy
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
    tags: love
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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  • #28
    Bill Watterson
    “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
    ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
    tags: army, fighting, peace, soldiers, war
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  • #29
    Terry Pratchett
    “...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
    tags: ageing, humor
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  • #30
    Ozzy Osbourne
    “I keep hearing this fucking thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?”
    ― Ozzy Osbourne
    tags: guns
    35 likes



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