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#1

“While there's life, there's hope.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: hope, life

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#2

“Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

tags: science

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#3

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: honesty, justice, secrecy, transparency, truth, truth-telling

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#4

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy

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#5

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

tags: certainty, ignorance, knowledge, open-mindedness, science, willful-ignorance

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#6

“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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#7

“Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.”
― James Baldwin

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#8

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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#9

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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#10

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning

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#11

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

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#12

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”
― Wendell Berry

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#13

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#14

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

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#15

“I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.”
― Bill Murray

tags: bill-murray, dislike, dogs, like, person, trust

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#17

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#18

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: psychiatry, sanity

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#19

“Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.”
― Laurie R. King, O Jerusalem

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#20

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

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#21

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

tags: education

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#22

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

tags: education, ethics

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#23

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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#24

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#25

“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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#26

“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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#27

“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”
― Lynda Barry

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#28

“That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”
― Raymond Carver

tags: writing

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#29

“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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#30

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#31

“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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