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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
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    Voltaire
    “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

    (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life
    1349 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: atheism, organized-religion, paradox, religion
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    Mark Twain
    “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
    43895 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-stereotypes
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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: atheism
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All I need is a sheet of paper
    and something to write with, and then
    I can turn the world upside down.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: writing
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Alexander Pope
    “How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
    The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
    Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
    Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
    ― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard
    tags: innocence
    2535 likes

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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Sir, I admit your general rule,
    That every poet is a fool,
    But you yourself may serve to show it,
    That every fool is not a poet.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    tags: insult, poetry
    180 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: frank-zappa, originality, people, weird
    749 likes

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    Alexander Pope
    “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: angels, caution, delicacy, fearlessness, fools, indiscretion
    1920 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music-religion
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    Alexander Pope
    “Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire. ”
    ― Alexander Pope
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    Frank Zappa
    “There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”
    ― Frank Zappa
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    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
    tags: family, family-relationships
    141 likes

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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
    4631 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: beauty, ugly
    263 likes

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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4084 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
    13965 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: tobacco
    198 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: humor, writing
    2369 likes



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