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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Peter De Vries
    “Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
    Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

  • #3
    George Bernard Shaw
    “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

  • #4
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #5
    John Donne
    “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
    John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose

  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “All the world's a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #7
    Charles Dickens
    “Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”
    Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

  • #8
    Charles V
    “To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.”
    Emperor Charles V

  • #9
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #10
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

  • #11
    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    Anne Bronte

  • #12
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #13
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #14
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Hell is just a frame of mind.”
    Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

  • #15
    Jules Verne
    “I say, you do have a heart!"

    "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.”
    Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon

  • #16
    Peter Ustinov
    “I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
    Peter Ustinov

  • #17
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    George Orwell

  • #18
    “Painting and religious experience are the same thing, and what we are all searching for is the understanding and realization of infinity.”
    Ben Nicholson

  • #19
    Audrey Hepburn
    “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #20
    D.B.C. Pierre
    “The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.”
    D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little

  • #21
    D.B.C. Pierre
    “Every forty-three blinks, the flashing lights on the police cars that follow my van into Houston synchronize. They flash separately for a few turns, then start flashing in series, like leading-in lights. Then, for a second, they all flash at once. What I learn as I’m driving into Houston under the low, still clouds, and choppers, for the first day of my trial, is that life works the same way. Most of the time you feel the potential for synchrony, but only once in a while do things actually synch up.”
    D.B.C. Pierre

  • #22
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  • #23
    George Orwell
    “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #24
    “When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. ”
    Peter O'Toole

  • #25
    Michael  Collins
    “Q: What were you thinking when your colleagues were out there making cosmic history?
    A: I just kept reminding myself that every single component in this spacecraft was provided by the guy who submitted the cheapest tender.”
    Michael Collins

  • #26
    Thomas  Harris
    “The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”
    Thomas Harris, Hannibal

  • #27
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    Socrates

  • #28
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #29
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #30
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I am myself and I am here.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre



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