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    Mark Twain
    “There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: sin, temptation
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    Mark Twain
    “When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: anger
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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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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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    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: books, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: courage
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
    ― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
    tags: government, kidding, misattributed-mark-twain, stupidity
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    Mark Twain
    “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: education
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    Mark Twain
    “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: happiness, sanity
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    Mark Twain
    “Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, rake
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    Mark Twain
    “There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: darkness, human-nature, moon
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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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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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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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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Alan Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    ― Alan Moore
    tags: life
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: love
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    ― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
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