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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Manny Rayner
    “There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.”
    ― Manny Rayner
    tags: irony, sociology
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    Mario Puzo
    “Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.”
    ― Mario Puzo, The Godfather
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: bond, celaleddin, inadequacy-of-words, inner, language, mawlana, mawlana-jalal-al-din-rumi, mevlana, pretext, rumi, soul, structuralism, turkey, türkiye, words
    1999 likes

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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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    Allie Brosh
    “Because that’s intimacy, Buckaroos.
    Somebody who understands exactly how weird you are, and you understand exactly how weird they are, and you’re in a sort of mutually beneficial hostage situation.”
    ― Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems
    tags: friends, friendship, intimacy, relationships
    23 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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    Karen M. McManus
    “Good thing life is long and high school is short”
    ― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next
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  • #10
    James Suzman
    “The equation of taxation and theft is as old as extortion”
    ― James Suzman, Work: A History of How we spend our Time
    tags: extortion, taxation, theft
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  • #11
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, reading, truth
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    Mitch Albom
    “Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    591 likes

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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been truly outstanding, so that, if he is not quite as skillful as they, at least some of their ability may rub off on him.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: example, greatness, imitation, learning
    37 likes

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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
    tags: cassandra-clare, clockwork-princess, jem-carstairs, tessa-gray, the-infernal-devices, will-herondale, woolsey-scott
    603 likes

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    J. Krishnamurti
    “The demand to be safe in relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. This seeking for security is inviting insecurity. Have you ever found security in any of your relationships? Have you? Most of us want the security of loving and being loved, but is there love when each one of us is seeking his own security, his own particular path? We are not loved because we don't know how to love.”
    ― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
    tags: love, relationships
    49 likes

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    Miyamoto Musashi
    “1. Accept everything just the way it is.
    2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
    3. Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling.
    4. Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
    5. Be detached from desire your whole life long.
    6. Do not regret what you have done.
    7. Never be jealous.
    8. Never let yourself be saddened by a separation.
    9. Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.
    10. Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
    11. In all things have no preferences.
    12. Be indifferent to where you live.
    13. Do not pursue the taste of good food.
    14. Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need.
    15. Do not act following customary beliefs.
    16. Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful.
    17. Do not fear death.
    18. Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age.
    19. Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.
    20. You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
    21. Never stray from the Way.”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi
    tags: ascetic-life, buddhism, taoism
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    J.D. Salinger
    “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: attributed, growing-up, wilhelm-stekel
    2952 likes

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    Sigmund Freud
    “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
    tags: fear, freedom, responsibility
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    Tim Fargo
    “Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
    ― Tim Fargo
    tags: adversity, adversity-inspirational, adversity-quotes, aptitude, attain, attainable, attainment, capacity, competency, difficulty, enemies, enemy, friend, friendship, friendship-true-and-loyal, hard-times, hard-work, hardship, loyal, loyalty, perseverance, perseverance-quotes, persevere, potential, potential-for-greatness, pressure, strength, strength-and-courage, strength-of-character, talent, talented
    318 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Jules Verne
    “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
    ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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    Michel Onfray
    “You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
    ― Michel Onfray
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    Saadat Hasan Manto
    “Manto had earlier been prosecuted in Lahore for obscenity, and one of the words alleged to have been obscene was, “breasts”
    ― Saadat Hasan Manto, Why I Write: Essays by Saadat Hasan Manto
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    Voltaire
    “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
    (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
    ― Voltaire
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    V.S. Naipaul
    “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
    ― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
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    Woody Allen
    “To you, I'm an atheist.
    To God, I'm the loyal opposition.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: absurd, atheism, humor
    1954 likes

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    Kuvempu
    “ಎಲ್ಲಾದರೂ ಇರು ಎಂತಾದರೂ ಇರು ಎಂದೆಂದಿಗೂ ನೀ ಕನ್ನಡವಾಗಿರು”
    ― Kuvempu
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