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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#2

“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

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#4

“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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#5

“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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#6

“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 abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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#8

“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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#9

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
― Terry Pratchett

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#10

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

tags: humor, science

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#11

“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

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#12

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

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#13

“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

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#14

“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

tags: conservation, environmentalism, humor

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#15

“...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

tags: ageing, humor

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#16

“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

tags: drunkenness, insanity

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#17

“Se i tempi non chiedono la tua parte migliore, inventa altri tempi”
― Stefano Benni, Baol. Una tranquilla notte di regime

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#18

“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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#19

“La storia ci guarda e non vorrei che vomitasse.”
― Stefano Benni, Margherita Dolce Vita

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#20

“Triste è l'uomo che ama le cose solo quando si allontanano.”
― Stefano Benni, Baol. Una tranquilla notte di regime

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#21

“Le idee sono come le tette, se non sono abbastanza grandi si possono gonfiare.”
― Stefano Benni, La Compagnia dei Celestini

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#22

“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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#23

“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

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#24

“He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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#25

“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

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#27

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor, taste

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#28

“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

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#29

“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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#30

“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

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