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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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  • #3
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
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  • #4
    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: funny, humanity, humor
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  • #5
    Alexander Pope
    “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes
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  • #6
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
    13158 likes

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  • #7
    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Daniel J. Boorstin
    “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
    ― Daniel J. Boorstin
    tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking
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  • #10
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
    tags: inspirational, values
    2791 likes

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  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
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  • #14
    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: philosophy, science
    8640 likes

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  • #15
    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: books, reading, rights
    6984 likes

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    Scott Lynch
    “If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken."

    [on Twitter, July 17, 2012]”
    ― Scott Lynch
    tags: honesty, reviews, twitter
    833 likes

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  • #17
    Howard Mittelmark
    “...This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for "Are you fucking kidding me?”
    ― Howard Mittelmark, How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
    tags: deus-ex-machina
    334 likes

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  • #18
    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    H.G. Wells
    “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence, and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Red Country
    tags: evil, men, villainy, violence
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  • #22
    Joe Abercrombie
    “People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Hard words are for fools and cowards.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
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  • #24
    Joe Abercrombie
    “You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
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  • #25
    Joe Abercrombie
    “Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
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  • #26
    Joe Abercrombie
    “If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King
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  • #27
    Joe Abercrombie
    “Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
    tags: optimism
    114 likes

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  • #28
    Joe Abercrombie
    “That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a river you called home.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
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  • #29
    Joe Abercrombie
    “Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Red Country
    tags: good-times, life, nostalgia
    150 likes

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  • #31
    Joe Abercrombie
    “All an arsehole knows about is shit. ~ Dogman”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged
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