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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
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    Voltaire
    “Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
    tags: contradiction, correcting, correction, criticism, inspirational, opinions, paranoia
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
    tags: critical-thinking, independent-thought, opinions, skepticism, thinking
    868 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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    William Shakespeare
    “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    tags: birthday, happiness, laughter, shakespeare
    1979 likes

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    Kōji Suzuki
    “The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.”
    ― Koji Suzuki, Birthday
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    Thomas Sowell
    “The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Thomas Sowell
    “What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?”
    ― Thomas Sowell
    tags: history
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    Thomas Sowell
    “Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Thomas Sowell
    “One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Too weird to live, too rare to die!”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    tags: life-and-death
    1258 likes

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    Alan W. Watts
    “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: process, time
    1340 likes

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    Alan W. Watts
    “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: buddhism, metaphysical, philosophy
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    Alan W. Watts
    “The menu is not the meal.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: language, metaphysics, names, nominalism, philosophy, power-of-words, words
    775 likes

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    Alan W. Watts
    “You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: self, universe
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
    tags: alone, birth, death, growing-up, growth, life, lonely, love, self-respect
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: gonzo, happiness, risk
    2506 likes

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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: sex
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: journalist, truth
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
    808 likes

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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Good people drink good beer.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    tags: drinking
    698 likes

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    Bruce Lee
    “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, prayer
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    Bruce Lee
    “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: goals, vision
    687 likes

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    Bruce Lee
    “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: bruce-lee
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    Bruce Lee
    “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: inspirational, motivation, priorities, simplicity, wisdom
    591 likes



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