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Black Leaf

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Black’s Quotes

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

37989 likes

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

23459 likes

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71687 likes

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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This group (ranked in the TOP 100 most popular groups on Goodreads) is dedicated to the "Vision and Story" project. Additionally, the group THE BOOK ...more

Mysterious Unknown — 44 members — last activity Sep 19, 2025 01:53AM
Fans of the Unknown. Futurology, weird science, consciousness research, alternative history, cryptozoology, UFOs, and new-age absurdity.