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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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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    “A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.”
    ― Louis Nizer
    tags: humor
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    “Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.”
    ― Will Cuppy
    tags: animals, apes, humor, humorous, mammals, primates
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    Brennan Manning
    “The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.'

    'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.”
    ― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel
    tags: church, god, organized-religion, sin
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
    ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    tags: beatnik, cynical, funny, humour
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    Oscar Wilde
    “People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humour, practicality, proverbs
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    George Orwell
    “It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: absurd
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    George Orwell
    “We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.”
    ― George Orwell
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    Lois Lowry
    “It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.”
    ― Lois Lowry
    tags: inspirational
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    Robert Bloch
    “The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”
    ― Robert Bloch
    tags: humor
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    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    ― Robert Bloch
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    Robert Bloch
    “I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister”
    ― Robert Bloch
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    Maya Angelou
    “Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days
    tags: foolishness, inspirational
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: humor
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    Yogi Berra
    “Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
    ― Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
    tags: funny
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    Yogi Berra
    “You can observe a lot just by watching.”
    ― Yogi Berra
    tags: managment, science, truism
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    Yogi Berra
    “If you don't know where you are going,
    you'll end up someplace else.”
    ― Yogi Berra
    tags: goals, integrity, planning, truism
    420 likes

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    Yogi Berra
    “Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.”
    ― Yogi Berra
    tags: humor, pie
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    Yogi Berra
    “90% of the game is half mental.”
    ― Yogi Berra , The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said
    tags: inspirational, math-humor
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    Yogi Berra
    “I never said most of the things I said.”
    ― Yogi Berra
    tags: misquoted, paradox
    133 likes

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    Yogi Berra
    “The future ain't what it used to be.”
    ― Yogi Berra
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    “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
    ― Benjamin Brewster
    tags: 1882, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, misattributed-to-yogi-berra, quote-investigator, theory
    209 likes

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    Yogi Berra
    “Okay you guys, pair up in threes!”
    ― Yogi Berra
    tags: baseball, humor
    113 likes

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    Yogi Berra
    “You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.”
    ― Yogi Berra
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    Yogi Berra
    “I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.”
    ― Yogi Berra
    tags: humor
    96 likes

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    Yogi Berra
    “If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.”
    ― Yogi Berra
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  • #30
    Yogi Berra
    “He must have made that before he died.”
    ― Yogi Berra
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