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  • #212
    Groucho Marx
    “Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: beatitudes, paraphrased
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  • #213
    Groucho Marx
    “While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: money
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  • #214
    Groucho Marx
    “I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: absurd, gibe, insult
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  • #215
    Groucho Marx
    “I intend to live forever, or die trying.”
    ― Groucho Marx
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  • #216
    Groucho Marx
    “Whatever it is, I'm against it.”
    ― Groucho Marx
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  • #217
    Groucho Marx
    “Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: leadership
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  • #218
    Aristophanes
    “Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.”
    ― Aristophanes, Plutus
    tags: corruption, greed, injustice, intrigue, politicians, poverty, public-service, self-interest, selfishness, wealth
    71 likes

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  • #219
    Aristophanes
    “It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls”
    ― Aristophanes
    tags: logic
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  • #220
    Jack Vance
    “What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.”
    ― Jack Vance, Tales of the Dying Earth
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  • #221
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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  • #222
    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.”
    ― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era
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  • #223
    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “...you're going to find people from all over the country, everyone hungry for money and position. You won't make a name for yourself just doing what the next man does. You'll have to distinguish yourself in some way.”
    ― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi
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  • #224
    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.”
    ― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi
    tags: samurai, war, warrior
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  • #225
    John Stuart Mill
    “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
    ― John Stuart Mill
    tags: contentment, frugality
    348 likes

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  • #226
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    ― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    tags: life
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  • #227
    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: life, travel
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  • #228
    Erasmus
    “A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.”
    ― Erasmus
    tags: habits
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  • #229
    Galileo Galilei
    “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
    ― Galileo Galilei
    tags: inspirational
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  • #230
    Ray Bradbury
    “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: reality-bothered
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  • #231
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • #232
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered? No, but to be convicted and exposed, to be shamed out of our nonsense of all kinds, and made men of, instead of ghosts and phantoms. We are weary of gliding ghostlike through the world, which is itself so slight and unreal. We crave a sense of reality, though it comes in strokes of pain.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • #233
    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
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  • #234
    Michel de Montaigne
    “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: fear, paradox, suffer, suffering
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  • #235
    Michel de Montaigne
    “I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: adversary, ardor, argument, changed-mind, dispute, force, open-mind, pleasure, pride, reason, victory, weakness
    203 likes

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  • #236
    Michel de Montaigne
    “When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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  • #237
    Heraclitus
    “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
    ― Heraclitus
    tags: eternity, impermanence, journey, life, mujo
    2219 likes

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  • #238
    August Strindberg
    “Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
    ― August Strindberg, Miss Julie
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  • #239
    Walter Kaufmann
    “Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.”
    ― Walter Kaufmann, Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
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  • #240
    Walter Kaufmann
    “Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.”
    ― Walter Kaufmann
    tags: books
    48 likes

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  • #241
    Victor Davis Hanson
    “Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.”
    ― Victor Davis Hanson
    29 likes



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