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    Jarod Kintz
    “I’m surprised there isn’t a jet airplane designed in the shape of a brick. Some people (aeronautical engineers) might say that’s because bricks aren’t aerodynamic. Yeah, right. I’d like to see someone make that claim as they watch a brick flying towards their face at a high velocity. 
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    ― Jarod Kintz, A brick and a blanket walk into a bar
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: love
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    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom
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    Richard Rodgers
    “Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?”
    ― Richard Rodgers, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords
    tags: adoration, beauty, love
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...

    They don't find it," I answered.

    And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."

    Of course," I answered.

    And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: dogs, fashion, humor, respect
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “We boil at different degrees.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: duty, identity, responsibility, uniqueness
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    “When you cross over into the weird stuff, there's no going back. Hector has a theory on it. Calls it the law of 'Anomalous Phenomena Attraction.' He explained it to me once. Didn't really pay attention, but it boils down to 'weird shit pulls in more weird shit.”
    ― A. Lee Martinez, Gil's All Fright Diner
    tags: funny, paranormal, weird
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: human-nature
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: bernard-shaw, irish, pigs, pointlessness
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: change, sensibility
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  • #15
    “He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”
    ― Forrest Tucker
    tags: classic-insult
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    Oscar Wilde
    “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: classic-insult
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    Alexander Pope
    “If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: misattributed-to-alexander-pope, misattributed-to-dorothy-parker
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    Robert Orben
    “Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. ”
    ― Robert Orben
    tags: pessimism
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    Scott Adams
    “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
    ― Scott Adams
    tags: creativity
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    Paulo Coelho
    “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
    tags: challenges, change, courage, life
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    Jarod Kintz
    “After losing my job, I felt the only options available to me were razors, cyanide, or a shot to the face, until Renaldo, being the good friend that he is, reminded me how to tie a noose.
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    ― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
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    David Hume
    “Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
    ― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
    tags: errors, philosophy, religion
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  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Maya Angelou
    “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: 1997, annie-clark-tanner-lecture
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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    William Faulkner
    “Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories
    tags: hypocrisy, piety, religion
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    Mark Twain
    “He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: human-nature
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