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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

“People always clap for the wrong reasons.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.”
― Daniel C. Dennett

“You ought to go to a boys' school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques. The guys that are on the basketball team stick together, the Catholics stick together, the goddam intellectuals stick together, the guys that play bridge stick together. Even the guys that
belong to the goddam Book-of-the-Month Club stick together.”
― Salinger Jerome David, The Catcher in the Rye

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”
― Aristotle

“اندیشیدن، سرآغاز تحلیل رفتن است”
― آلبر کامو/Albert Camus

“How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”
― J.D. Salinger

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger