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#1

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

tags: books, humor

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#2

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#3

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#4

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#5

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#6

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
― Robert Frost

tags: new-england-wisdom

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#7

“You can't lie to your soul.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

tags: honesty, introspection

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#8

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
― Galileo Galilei

tags: inspirational

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#9

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#10

“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: life-philosophy

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#11

“Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool ”
― Seneca, Moral Essays: Volume I De Providentia. De Constantia. De Ira. De Clementia

tags: wealth

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#12

“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

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#13

“Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

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#14

“He who spares the wicked injures the good.”
― Seneca

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#15

“It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.”
― Seneca

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#16

“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

tags: stoicism

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#17

“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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#18

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#19

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom

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#20

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#21

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

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#22

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon

tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom

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#23

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom

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#24

“Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor, science

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#25

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
― Nikola Tesla

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#26

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: invention, non-physical-phenomena, progress, science

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#27

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
― Nikola Tesla

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#28

“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: future, present

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#29

“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
― Nikola Tesla

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#30

“Everyone should consider his
body as a priceless gift from
one whom he loves above all, a
marvelous work of art, of
indescribable beauty, and
mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that
a word, a breath, a look, nay, a
thought may injure it.”
― Nikola Tesla

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