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    “My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.”
    ― Elon Musk
    tags: inspirational, perseverance, spacex
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
    ― Cornelia Funke
    tags: books, character, cornelia-funke, existentialism, words, writers, writing
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    Richard Dawkins
    “There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, existentialism, follow-your-bliss, self-actualization, self-determination
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  • #4
    Woody Allen
    “I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: existentialism, humor, uncertainty
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  • #5
    Albert Camus
    “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
    tags: existentialism, failure, inspirational
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    Albert Camus
    “I rebel; therefore I exist.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: existentialism, rebel
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  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: existentialism, student, teacher
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    Samuel Beckett
    “I can't go on, I'll go on.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
    tags: absurdity, drama, existentialism, fiction, humor, nihilism, tragedy, tragic-comedy
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    George Carlin
    “Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: absurdity, belief, credulity, doubt, evidence, gullibility, humor, indoctrination, invisible, reason, skepticism
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    “Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
    ― Theodore Kaczynski
    tags: absurdity, depression, drugs, pharmaceuticals, psychiatry, psychology, society
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  • #12
    José Saramago
    “Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.”
    ― José Saramago, The Double
    tags: double, order, perception
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  • #13
    John Lennon
    “I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.”
    ― John Lennon
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    Banksy
    “My main problem with cops is that they do what they're told. They say 'Sorry mate, I'm just doing my job' all the fucking time.”
    ― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
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    Banksy
    “Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
    You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
    at high speed with total clarity.”
    ― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
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    Banksy
    “Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.”
    ― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
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    Banksy
    “People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.”
    ― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
    tags: death, famine, morning-people, morning-person, type-a, war
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    Banksy
    “A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.”
    ― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
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    When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European,
    “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
    ― Jiddu Krishnamurti
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    Plato
    “Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool”
    ― Plato
    tags: indoctrination, propaganda, schooling, state-schools, statism
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    Alejandro Jodorowsky
    “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
    ― Alejandro Jodorowsky
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    Alejandro Jodorowsky
    “Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.”
    ― Alejandro Jodorowsky
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli
    tags: honor, men, titles
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    Eckhart Tolle
    “...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: chuck-palahniuk, invisible-monsters, past, past-and-future
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Нека никога не бъда завършен.
    Нека никога не бъда доволен.
    Нека никога не бъда съвършен.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: chuck-palahniuk, fight-club
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    Ilona Andrews
    “Did those nice church ladies come by again?"
    He nodded. "I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried, and then the three of them met in heaven, would it be a sin for them to have a threesome, since they were all married in God's eye. And they decided they were late to be somewhere else.”
    ― Ilona Andrews, Gunmetal Magic
    tags: andrea, ascanio, awesome, church, funny, hilarious, kate-daniels, threesome
    223 likes

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  • #28
    “If you kick it, they shall come.”
    ― Sam Hyde
    tags: mde
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  • #29
    “Pull the BandAid off a little too fast, and tell 'em what they don't wanna hear.”
    ― Sam Hyde
    tags: humor, truth
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    Neil Gaiman
    “A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: gaze, human, stars
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