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#1

“the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems

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#2

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

tags: humanity, life

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#3

“We've been brainwashed into believing that it's a sin to discriminate. But discrimination doesn't mean racism; it means telling unlike things apart.”
― Bill Maher, When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

tags: discrimination, racism

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#4

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#5

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
― Michael Cunningham

tags: life, on-fiction, writing

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#6

“Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: clothes, clothing, conspicuous-consumption, expensive, image, impression, poor, prosperity, show-off

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#7

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

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#8

“The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.”
― William Hazlitt

tags: idiots, world, wrong

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#9

“If you think buying a DSLR has made you a photographer, don't ever buy a Stethoscope.”
― Ketan Waghmare

tags: dslr, enthusiaist, idiots, naive

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#10

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex

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#11

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, taste

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#12

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: humor

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#13

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: reading

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#14

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: disappointment, dorian-gray, marriage, men, relationships, women

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#15

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#16

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom

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#17

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto

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#18

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: advice, epigram, humor

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#19

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: epigram

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#20

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cigarette

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#21

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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#22

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: manners, wit

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#23

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#24

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: past, rich, wilde

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#25

“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: playing, winning

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#26

“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

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#27

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

tags: nonfiction, pretty

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#28

“Money often costs too much”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: cost, money

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#29

“Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.”
― Joseph E. Stiglitz

tags: banks, economics, inequality, injustice, justice

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#30

“I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: finance, truism

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