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#1

“You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

tags: america, diplomacy

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#2

“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: reading-books

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#3

“No one can "get" an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.”
― Louis L'Amour

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#4

“The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.”
― Louis L'Amour

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#5

“Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.”
― Louis L'Amour

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#6

“A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

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#7

“Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.”
― Louis L'Amour

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#8

“To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.”
― Louis L'Amour

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#9

“Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen”
― Louis L'Amour

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#10

“Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.”
― Louis L'Amour

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#11

“Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum

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#12

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#14

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#15

“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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#16

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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#17

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#18

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

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#19

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#20

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

tags: chocolate, friendship

16486 likes

#21

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18883 likes

#22

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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#23

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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#24

“This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.”
― Alistair MacLean, Where Eagles Dare

tags: humour, maclean

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#25

“Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin.”
― Alistair MacLean, Caravan to Vaccares

tags: caravan, humour, maclean, vaccares

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#26

“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”
― P.J. O'Rourke, Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

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#27

“I may not always walk the straight and narrow, but I sure in hell try to cross it as often as I can.”
― J. Golden Kimball

tags: humor, religion

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#28

“A sermon should be like a woman’s dress. Long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep your attention.”
― J. Golden Kimball

tags: humor, religion

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#29

“What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can’t claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will not settle the trouble, unless you keep him under.”
― J. Golden Kimball

tags: humor, religion

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#30

“I don't know about this here eternal marriage business. But it seems to me that if you can't live with the sons-of-bitches on earth the Lord won't force you to remain with them in heaven.”
― J. Golden Kimball

tags: humor, religion

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#31

“I believe if I had a house in hell and a house in St. George, I'd rent out the one in St. George and live in hell. I really would.”
― J. Golden Kimball

tags: humor

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