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“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

tags: brain

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“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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#3

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression

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#4

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

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#5

“The way you're looking at me right now," he said, his voice turning thick, his words plucked one by one. "It tells me you have no idea that I'm lost to you, that I'm in love with you, that I can't fucking breathe without you.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

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“I want you and I’ve known it for a long time, and I don’t want to wait anymore. I can’t. I can’t wait anymore.”
― Kate Canterbary, Underneath It All

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#7

“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: agreement, attraction, beautiful, beauty, chemistry, chemistry-out-of-control-love, commitment, compatibility, competition, conflict, contradiction, control, dedication, differences, differentiation, disagreement, enemy, fatal-attraction, forgiveness, friendship, illogical, incompatibility, logical, love, necessity, opposites, opposites-attract, out-of-control, out-of-control-love, paradox, partnership, peace, relationship, rival, romance, romantic, sense, senseless, together, unconditional-love, unity

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#8

“I have always loved everything about you. Even what I didn’t understand. And I have always known that, at heart, I would have you no different. But most people don’t know how to love. Nothing is enough for them. They must have their dreams. It’s the only thing they do well. Dreaming. They dream up obligations. New ones every day. They long for undiscovered countries, fresh demands, another call. While some of us are left with the knowledge that love can never wait. A shared bed, a hand in yours, that’s the only thing that matters. The worst thing of all is fear. The fear of being alone.”
― Albert Camus

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#9

“No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#10

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#11

“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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#12

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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#13

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

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#14

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cynic

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#15

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: temptation

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#16

“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”
― Golda Meir

tags: funny, golda, meir, true

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#17

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life

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#18

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#19

“Reader, I married him.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#20

“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
― Betty Friedan

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#21

“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: depressing, humor, wise

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#22

“Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.

Good things come to those who wait.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern

tags: desire, funny, honesty, humor, humour, love, lust, passion, relationships, romance, sex, truth, wisdom, young, young-adult, young-adults, youth

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#23

“Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: becoming-jane, flirting, sex

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#24

“All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: love, poetry

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#25

“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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#26

“The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.”
― Lauren Kate, Fallen

tags: life, live-in-the-moment

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#27

“It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

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#28

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern

tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words

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#29

“This is the law of life, its real meaning, that we cannot impose our experience on other people, or force them to feel suggested emotions. Only through personal experience do we understand life.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

tags: laws-of-life, life, meaning-of-life, people, personal-experience, understanding-life, understanding-life-lessons

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#30

“the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: defeat, enemy, opportunity, strategy, war

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