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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    Bernard Malamud
    “There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
    ― Bernard Malamud
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    William Shakespeare
    “All that glisters is not gold;
    Often have you heard that told:
    Many a man his life hath sold
    But my outside to behold:
    Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: flight, flying, inspirational
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
    tags: genius
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    Roald Dahl
    “Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The BFG
    tags: crazy, funny, words
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    Walter de la Mare
    “Hi! handsome hunting man
    Fire your little gun.
    Bang! Now the animal
    is dead and dumb and done.
    Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again,
    Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!”
    ― Walter de la Mare, Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People
    tags: animals, hunting
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: politics
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    Pericles
    “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
    ― Pericles
    tags: politics
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    Bill Maher
    “The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."

    (The Decider, July 21, 2007)”
    ― Bill Maher
    tags: dunning-kruger-effect
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: anti-patriotism, identity, nation, nationalism, politics
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World
    tags: communism, democracy, dishonesty, funny, humour, politicians, politics, revolution, socialism
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    Salman Rushdie
    “What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?”
    ― Salman Rushdie, Fury
    tags: christmas, humor, jesus
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression
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    Ovid
    “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
    ― Ovid
    tags: activism, change, inspirational, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: best, forlorn-hope, perseverance, resolve
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    Francis Bacon
    “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
    ― Francis Bacon, The Essays
    tags: opportunity, perseverance, wisdom
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    Martin Luther
    “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: inspiration, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: perseverance
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    Samuel Johnson
    “What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
    tags: effort, perseverance
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    Nelson Mandela
    “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: courage, focus, follow-your-dreams, inspiration, life-truth, perseverance
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    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: perseverance, suicide, survival
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    Muhammad Ali
    “If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize.”
    ― Muhammad Ali
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    Victor Hugo
    “There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.”
    ― Victor Hugo
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    Thomas Paine
    “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
    tags: close-mindedness, simile, stubbornness
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    Aristotle
    “The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
    ― Aristotle
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you're going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: adversity
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: love
    24165 likes



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