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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    tags: brain, mind
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    Thomas Wolfe
    “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
    ― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
    tags: happiness, life, sea
    2159 likes

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  • #4
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Eternity is the sun
    mixed
    with the sea”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
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    Ayn Rand
    “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: atlas, shrugged
    3749 likes

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  • #6
    Paulo Coelho
    “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    244 likes

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  • #7
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
    5693 likes

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  • #8
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
    8475 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
    31593 likes

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: dirty, funny, logo, sex
    6872 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
    7635 likes

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    Phyllis Diller
    “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
    ― Phyllis Diller
    tags: anger, funny, sleep
    8251 likes

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  • #13
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
    ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    tags: beatnik, cynical, funny, humour
    2882 likes

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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
    21433 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
    12933 likes

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  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: humor, science
    4305 likes

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  • #17
    Terry Pratchett
    “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: humor, life
    3609 likes

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  • #18
    Terry Pratchett
    “I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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  • #20
    Rodney Dangerfield
    “What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.”
    ― Rodney Dangerfield
    tags: funny, humour, infidelity, parenthood, parenting, sexuality
    2192 likes

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  • #21
    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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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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  • #23
    “One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
    ― Tim Burton
    2887 likes

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  • #24
    “I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: insanity, stupidity
    1815 likes

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  • #25
    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
    13074 likes

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    Thomas Szasz
    “Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
    ― Thomas Szasz
    tags: humor, inspirational
    9763 likes

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  • #27
    Mae West
    “I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, temptation
    7021 likes

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  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: creation, god, humor, man
    6379 likes

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    George Carlin
    “If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
    ― George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty
    tags: humanity, humor, humour, perspective, philosophie
    1001 likes

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  • #30
    Mindy Kaling
    “There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
    ― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
    tags: humour, sleep, waking-up
    886 likes



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