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    Leo Rosten
    “The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.”
    ― Leo Rosten
    tags: writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: talent, writing
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    Paul Valéry
    “What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.”
    ― Paul Valéry
    tags: reading, writing
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: freedom
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein, life
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    Walter Bagehot
    “The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. ”
    ― Walter Bagehot
    tags: books, writing
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
    tags: life
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    “Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.”
    ― Catherine Drinker Bowen
    tags: life, writing
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    William Hazlitt
    “Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
    ― William Hazlitt
    tags: laughter, life
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    Ronald Reagan
    “How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: communism, politics
    431 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: creativity
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    Anthony Price
    “The Devil himself had probably re-designed Hell in the light of the information he had gained from observing airport layouts.”
    ― Anthony Price, The Memory Trap
    tags: airports, humor, the-devil
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: money, religion
    98 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: attributed, intellectualism
    1235 likes

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    Walt Disney Company
    “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
    ― Walt Disney
    tags: inspirational
    4834 likes

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    Jane Wagner
    “Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.”
    ― Jane Wagner
    tags: reality, stress
    160 likes

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    “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
    ― John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-goethe
    2350 likes

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    Walt Disney Company
    “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.”
    ― Walt Disney
    tags: humor
    174 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational
    543 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: ideas
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    “You cannot run a scociety or cope with it’s problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.”
    ― John Leo
    tags: society
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    Harry Truman
    “The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.”
    ― Harry S. Truman
    tags: freedom, moral-law, political-philosophy, politics, separation-of-church-and-state
    70 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: ideas
    640 likes

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    Herbert Spencer
    “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.”
    ― Herbert Spencer
    tags: folly
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    Frank Lloyd Wright
    “The truth is more important than the facts.”
    ― Frank Lloyd Wright
    tags: facts, truth
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    “Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
    tags: belief, development, evolution, intelligence, misattributed-to-einstein, new-ideas, open-mindedness, thought
    344 likes

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    Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did,
    “Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did, .. backwards and in high heels."

    From: Frank and Ernest by Bob Thaves, art by Bob Thaves.”
    ― Bob Thaves
    tags: bob-thaves, frank-and-ernest, fred-astaire, ginger-rogers, high-heels, women
    45 likes



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