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#1

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
― George MacDonald

tags: trust

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#2

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul”
― Martha Graham

tags: dance, dancing

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#3

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books, intelligence, wisdom

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#4

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom

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#5

“A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills

tags: accuracy, certainty, gender, guesses, men, women

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#6

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
― Woodrow Wilson

tags: brains, intelligence

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#7

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

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#8

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

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#9

“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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#10

“I don’t understand why you don’t trust me. It’s not like you have a reason to not trust me. So, lend me some money, and let me give you the reason you were looking for to not trust me. Wouldn’t you rather be proved right than not lose money?”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

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#11

“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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#12

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#13

“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: intelligence

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#14

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis

tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women

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#15

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity

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#16

“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

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#17

“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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#18

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, philosophy

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#19

“You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal

tags: brothers, comedy, dark, euphemism, label, manipulation

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#20

“It’s absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we’ve got rockets, we’ve got saran wrap – FIX IT!!!”
― Lewis Black

tags: comedy

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#21

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#22

“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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#23

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

tags: genius, humor, insanity

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#24

“Words are like shards of glass. By themselves they're worthless; however, when placed together in just the right way, they can become great works of art.”
― Leigh M. Lane

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#25

“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: adoration, antipathy, women

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#26

“Maybe one did have to be smart in order to kill.”
― Markelle Grabo, The Spell Master

tags: death, fairies, fantasy, ramsey

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#27

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne

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#28

“It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.”
― Henri Barbusse, Hell

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#29

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
― Chris Rock

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#30

“Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.
Or insanity.”
― Richard Kadrey, Butcher Bird

tags: contradictions, insanity, intelligence

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