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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.”
    ― Freidrich Neitzsche
    tags: abstraction, language, metaphor, myths, representation, truth
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
    tags: irreligion, religion
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    Albert Einstein
    “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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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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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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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
    tags: paraphrase-of-congreve
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: greatness
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    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas-fils
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “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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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: imperfect, love
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    George Carlin
    “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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    George Harrison
    “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
    ― George Harrison
    tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll
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    Théophile Gautier
    “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
    ― Théophile Gautier
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, politics
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
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