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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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    Shmuley Boteach
    “There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
    ― Shmuley Boteach
    tags: relationships
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    George Orwell
    “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
    ― George Orwell
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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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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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Robert Jordan
    “I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
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    Jane Goodall
    “The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
    ― Jane Goodall
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    Nadine Gordimer
    “I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.”
    ― Nadine Gordimer, The House Gun
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    Stephen Fry
    “Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
    ― Stephen Fry
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    Robert Jordan
    “He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
    ― Robert Jordan, New Spring
    tags: drowning, expectations, jordan, lan, new-spring, overwhelmed, robert, wheel-of-time, wot
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    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
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    Colleen Hoover
    “Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Slammed
    tags: life
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    Sophie Kinsella
    “There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
    ― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
    tags: life, resilience, ruins, truth
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    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    ― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones
    tags: humor, obedience
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    David Benioff
    “Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and she disappears for long stretches, and she has no patience for the rest of your existence; your wife, your children, your friends. She is the most thrilling evening of your week, but some day she will leave you for good. One night, after she's been gone for years, you will see her on the arm of a younger man, and she will pretend not to recognize you.”
    ― David Benioff, City of Thieves
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
    ― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: dreams, expectations, hopes
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    Jean Genet
    “A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
    ― Jean Genet
    tags: darkness, dreams, time
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: design, foolproof, ingenuity
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    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    ― Irina Dunn
    tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Sue Grafton
    “Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
    ― Sue Grafton
    tags: ideas
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    Edward Gibbon
    “We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
    ― Edward Gibbon
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    E.M. Forster
    “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
    ― E.M. Forster
    tags: education, educational, inspirational, inspiring, learning, mentoring
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