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#1

“I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.”
― Alan Moore, Promethea, Vol. 5

tags: deep

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#2

“Beauty is an illusion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

tags: achievement, beautiful, beautiful-women, beauty, beauty-and-the-beast, beauty-in-nature, beauty-quotes, beauty-standards, brainy-quotes, female, female-beauty, female-characters, female-empowerment, female-hero, female-liberation, female-protagonist, females, feminine, feminine-power, femininity, feminism, feminism-identity, feminismo, feminist, feminist-quotes, feminists, girl, girl-power, girl-quotes, girls, humanism, humanity, humankind, inspirational, inspiring-women, leadership, leadership-development, man-and-woman, man-and-woman-quote, mankind, model-photography, modeling, neuropsychology, success, woman, woman-quotations, woman-quotes, woman-s-character, woman-s-strength, womanhood, women, women-and-men, women-empowerment, women-quotes, women-s-inspirational, women-s-rights, women-s-strength, womens-rights, words-of-wisdom

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#3

“The early worm gets bird shit.”
― Brian Spellman

tags: early-bird-gets-the-worm, misquoting, puns

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#4

“Never speak ill of the dead, insult his kin instead.”
― Brian Spellman

tags: misquoting, puns

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#4

“The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

tags: arms, mother

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#5

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#6

“And without fame, a man must spend his life
Only to leave such traces upon earth
As smoke leaves in the air, or foam in the sea”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: fame, smoke

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#7

“I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: human-nature, humanism, humor, humor-fear, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, life, life-and-living, living, loving-life, lust, lust-for-life, lustful, lusty, passion, passion-for-life, passion-for-living, passionate-living, passions

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#8

“Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They're also what tell you to eat the last slice of pie when you know Tia wanted it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart

tags: awesome, funny, goofy, great-quote, hilarious-quotes, make-me-laugh, silly, witty

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#9

“Choose your love. Love your choice.”
― Thomas S. Monson

tags: choices, love

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#10

“Three hundred years ago mathematicians were learning to break the cannonball's rise and fall into stairsteps of range and height, Δx and Δy, allowing them to grow smaller and smaller, approaching zero as armies of eternally shrinking midgets galloped upstairs and down again, the patter of their diminishing feet growing finer, smoothing out into continuous sound. This analytic legacy has been handed down intact–it brought the technicians at Peenemünde to peer at the Askania films of Rocket flights, frame by frame, Δx by Δy, flightless themselves . . . film and calculus, both pornographies of flight.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

tags: calculus, mathematics, rocket-science

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#11

“In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: accusation, assumption, bias, blame, extroversion, extroverts, fear, guilt, innocence, introversion, introverts, judgment, judgmental, judgmentality, people, skepticism, social-norms, society, unconscious-mind

302 likes

#12

“The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.”
― Brent Runyon, The Burn Journals: A Memoir

tags: introversion, introvert, introverts

130 likes

#13

“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
― Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

tags: force, police-brutality, power, resistance, solidarity, violence

1031 likes

#14

“Being gifted doesn’t mean you’ve been given something. It means, you have something to give.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

tags: gift

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#15

“We must keep our certainty that after the bad days the good times will come again”
― Marie Curie

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#16

“Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.”
― Alyson Noel, Blue Moon

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#17

“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: character, dogs, families, family, family-life, pets

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#18

“Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.”
― Diogenes

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#19

“A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."

Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

tags: diogenes, greece, philosopher, philosophy

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#20

“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

tags: good, philosophers, philosophy, philsopher

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#21

“Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief.”
― Diogenes

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#22

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy

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#23

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

tags: life, words

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#24

“You may pray to God to remove the hills on your way and fill every pothole on your path; but don’t be surprised if God gives you a shovel to do so!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: actions, dream, hills, israelmore-ayivor, pothole, pray-god, purpose, shovel, surprise, vision

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#25

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
― Timothy Leary

tags: ambition, equality

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#26

“Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.”
― John Lennon

tags: ego, god, life, loser

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#27

“The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.”
― David Foster Wallace, Girl With Curious Hair

tags: dfw, ego, self-awareness

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#28

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: prejudice, pride, vanity

5578 likes

#29

“I don't think I am heartless. Do you?'
'You have done too many foolish things during the last fortnight to be entitled to give yourself that name, Dorian,' answered Lord Henry with his sweet melancholy smile.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: foolishness, heartlessness

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