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  • #1
    Marvin Bell
    “Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
    ― Marvin Bell
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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  • #4
    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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  • #5
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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  • #7
    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
    15555 likes

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  • #8
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
    tags: life, love
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  • #9
    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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  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
    "Yes," said Harry stiffly.
    "Yes, sir."
    "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
    The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: humor, rebellion, sarcasm
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  • #11
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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  • #12
    Rainbow Rowell
    “To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
    tags: nerd, reality
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “I hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, focused entirely on a single consuming interest.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
    tags: consuming, interest, nerd, time
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  • #14
    Jim Butcher
    “Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?”
    “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together.
    “There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly,” I said. “Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking.”
    She sniffed. “This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It’s okay to like both.”
    “Blasphemy and lies,” I said.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Ghost Story
    tags: harry-dresden, molly-carpenter, nerds, star-trek, star-wars
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  • #15
    Violet Haberdasher
    “If you like nerds, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards.”
    ― Violet Haberdasher
    tags: nerds, robyn-schneider, youtube
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    Magenta Periwinkle
    “Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?”
    ― Magenta Periwinkle, Cutting Class
    tags: bullying, coming-of-age, cutting, cutting-class, first-love, geeks, goth, love, magenta-periwinkle, nerds, sentimental-bulls-t, teen-agnst, weirdo, weirdos, young-adult
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  • #17
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    tags: charm, enfp-vs-intj, flirting, game, nerd, nerdiness, nerds, seduction
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  • #18
    John Green
    “Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?”
    ― John Green
    tags: intelligence, nerd, nerds, nerdy, thoughtful
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  • #19
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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