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#32

“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#33

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: age, humor, old, wisdom

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#34

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#35

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading

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#36

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
― Plato

tags: laws, people

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#37

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

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#38

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#39

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#40

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#41

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

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#42

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom

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#43

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

tags: hatred, wisdom

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#44

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: faith, god, wisdom

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#45

“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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#46

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

tags: past, time

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#47

“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become difficult.”
― Richard Brautigan

tags: challenges, difficulties, life, simple-things, simplicity

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#48

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

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#49

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

tags: poetry

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#50

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#51

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#52

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#53

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed

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#54

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

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#55

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

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#56

“Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”
― James Baldwin

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#57

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: equity, justice, laws

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#58

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books

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#59

“It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

tags: irony, peace, war

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#60

“If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.”
― Richard Brautigan

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#61

“You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?”
― Stephen Colbert

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