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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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    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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  • #3
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    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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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #7
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    Terry Pratchett
    “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: humor, science
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    Terry Pratchett
    “DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: death, humor
    3476 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
    Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: alcohol, death, drinking, humor
    1408 likes

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  • #14
    Terry Pratchett
    “This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
    tags: conservation, environmentalism, humor
    1038 likes

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  • #15
    Terry Pratchett
    “...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
    tags: ageing, humor
    1048 likes

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  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: drunkenness, insanity
    800 likes

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    Stefano Benni
    “Se i tempi non chiedono la tua parte migliore, inventa altri tempi”
    ― Stefano Benni, Baol. Una tranquilla notte di regime
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    Stefano Benni
    “Di questi tempi è duro far gli spiritosi se non si è miliardari.”
    ― Stefano Benni, Baol. Una tranquilla notte di regime
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    Stefano Benni
    “La storia ci guarda e non vorrei che vomitasse.”
    ― Stefano Benni, Margherita Dolce Vita
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    Stefano Benni
    “Triste è l'uomo che ama le cose solo quando si allontanano.”
    ― Stefano Benni, Baol. Una tranquilla notte di regime
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    Stefano Benni
    “Le idee sono come le tette, se non sono abbastanza grandi si possono gonfiare.”
    ― Stefano Benni, La Compagnia dei Celestini
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    Stefano Benni
    “Io non so se Dio esiste, ma se non esiste ci fa una figura migliore.”
    ― Stefano Benni, Baol. Una tranquilla notte di regime
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
    But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: luck, magic, science
    855 likes

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  • #24
    Terry Pratchett
    “He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
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  • #25
    Terry Pratchett
    “Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
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  • #26
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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  • #27
    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor, taste
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    Douglas Adams
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: humor, perspective, science
    5860 likes

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    Groucho Marx
    “From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: humor, men, witchcraft, witches, women
    3395 likes



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