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#1

“The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver.

Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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#2

“The 'Selfie Stick' has to top the list for what best defines narcissism in society today.”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

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#3

“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

tags: feynman, knowledge, mystery, philosophy, science, understanding

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#4

“THE SILENT PEOPLE

Some people are so rude,
Living their lives with no concern for others,
Or possibly just intent on pissing other people off-
Annoying everyone around them.

The silent people-
Want to kill them-
And drive forks into their skulls-
Create weapons of extreme torture-
And scream from the top of their lungs-
"SHUT UP."

But words are not spoken-
And attention is not given.
Though annoyance is apparent,
The annoying keep on living.”
― Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love

tags: annoying, attention, extreme, forks, kill, living, living-life-to-the-fullest, poem, poetry, rude, rudeness, scream, shut-up, skulls, spoken, torture

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#5

“She’s like a cross between an onion and donkey,” Farah said.
“Why?” Jason and Connor asked simultaneously.
“Cause she’s a piece of ass that will bring a tear to your eye.” Farah laughed.”
― Mark A. Cooper, Royal Decree

tags: funny, hilarious, humor, rudeness, vulgar, witty

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#6

“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

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#7

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

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#8

“Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.”
― August Wilson

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#9

“To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: alone, bad-company, bad-friends, bad-influence, be-yourself, behaviour, believe-in-yourself, callow, childishness, company, etiquette, good-behaviour, good-quality, immature, immaturity, maturity, mediocre, mediocrity, negative-influence, negative-people, outstanding, peculiar, peculiarity, presence, quality, sensitivity, single, stand-alone

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#10

“There are no boundaries concerning your passion for education. No harm done, no offense given! Those who take education as an ass-suffering task makes it so because they have a phobia for alphabets.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: alphabets, boundary, depression, education, harm, letters, offense, passion, phobia, reading, suffering, task

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#11

“Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: competition, deserving, destruction, dictatorship, entitlement, man, nature, overpowering, power, pride, selfishness, stealing, thieves, tyranny

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#12

“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: atheism, cruelty, ethics, ethics-in-religion, morality, morality-without-religion, religion, selfishness, stupidity

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#13

“If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens

tags: humor, selfishness

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#14

“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon

tags: boundaries, feelings, life, people, relationships, respect, vanity

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#15

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: demographics

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#16

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: empathy, thankful, understanding, understanding-others

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#17

“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

tags: classics, humor, satire, vanity

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#18

“Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: anti-social, apathy, decievers, displeasure, dogma, dogmatic, egoism, egotism, egotist, fake-friends, feelings, flatter, flattering, impulse, impulsive, logic, madness, michael-bassey-johnson, misfit, mishap, pressure, reasoning, trick

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#19

“Some people are allergic to your success. Such people...when you smile...they cry, and wish you were dead.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#20

“When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which you're growing, but was to conceal the root from the eyes of people that will dare to uproot it.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: albert-einstien, bad, conceal, control, cover, coverage, demon, devil, evil, friends, haters, hide, hiding-your-source, hope, intellect, intelligence, metamorphosis, michael-bassey-johnson, mind, negative, negative-people, root, secret, spoilers, thinker, thinking, toxic-people, villain, wisdom, wise

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#21

“When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance...that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: approach, attention, behaviour, chameleon, dealing-with-people, deception, false-image, lunatic, michael-bassey-johnson, strange, stupidity, wise, wits

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#22

“Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: attitude, belittle, class, classmates, companion, companions, company, condescension, dignity, ego, high, higher, ink, level, levels, link, morale, poetry, poise, replica, same, self-esteem, self-regard, self-respect, shrink, small, standard, substandard, think, you, yourself

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#23

“When you choose your life, ignore people, when you make it in life, remember some friends, when you sing a song, praise your source, when predicaments arises, stand your ground.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: choice, don-t-fear, fear, fearing, friends, friendships, hope, ignore, ignoring-people, inspire, inspire-people, intrepid, life, living-your-life, memories, michael-bassey-johnson, praise, predicaments, remembering, sing, song, source, standing-your-ground, your-right-to-choose

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#24

“True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: acceptance, achilles-heel, admiration, affection, careless, defeat, devotion, downfall, endurance, essence, faith, funny-but-true, grass-to-grace, hero, humble-beginning, humility, inferior, kindness, lion-heart, love, poison, reckless, self-surrender, sensitivity, soft-spot, strong, submission, superior, sympathy, truth, vulnerable

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#25

“Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: be-real, being-real, date, dating, each-other, feelings, flattery, flow, funny-but-true, genuine, husband-and-wife, love, love-affair, outspoken, painful, pains, real, reality, relation, show-yourself, speak, suffering-voilence, sweet-talk, true-love, truth, vein

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#26

“Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

tags: challenges, challenges-in-life, crime, evil, fruit, hunger, lateness, laziness, michael-bassey-johnson, pains, price, suffering

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#27

“Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

tags: bitterness, disability, disappointment, emptiness, feelings, fulfillment, happiness, hope, joy, love, potential, relationships, self-awareness

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#28

“The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: angry-men, competition, confidence, envious, envy, gossipers, jealous-woman, jealous-women, jealousy, male-ego, self-abuse, self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-hatred, self-loathing, self-love, vanity, women

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#29

“Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: c-s-lewis, god, happy, love, selfish, selfishness

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#30

“It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

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