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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: creation, god, humor, man
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
    tags: love, romance
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: cynicism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: intelligence, quotation, wit
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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism, politics
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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, men, women
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    Mark Twain
    “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inventing-humor
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    Charles Bukowski
    “If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
    ― Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner
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    Charles Bukowski
    “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: dark, stars
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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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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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    Adolf Hitler
    “If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
    ― Adolf Hitler
    tags: philosophy, war
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    Malcolm X
    “Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: armed-struggle, arms, pacifism, peace, revolution, violence, war
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
    tags: humor
    296 likes

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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “When in doubt, ATTACK!”
    ― George S. Patton
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: hitler
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: atheism, organized-religion, religion
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    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Ayn Rand
    “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: freedom-of-thought, philosophy, politics, rights
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    William Shakespeare
    “thus with a kiss I die”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: history, romance
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: liberty, political-philosophy, politics
    697 likes

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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: hard-work, luck
    924 likes



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