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    Leo Tolstoy
    “A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: battle, defeat, defeatism, victory, war, win
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    Anna Kamieńska
    “I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.”
    ― Anna Kamienska, Astonishments: Selected Poems
    tags: life, poetry, writing
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Empire
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
    tags: courage, daring, men
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    Mykle Hansen
    “Some managers hire people they're excited to work with. I prefer to hire people I'm excited to dominate.”
    ― Mykle Hansen, HELP! A Bear is Eating Me!
    tags: work
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    Laura Miller
    “Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.”
    ― Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
    tags: books, lit, reading
    86 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
    tags: idiots, life-humor
    2368 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Anymore, no one's mind is their own.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
    tags: creativity, life, modernity, originality
    120 likes

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: life, perspective, social-norms, society
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Prose and Poetry
    tags: age, beauty, love, youth
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    tags: inspirational, life
    4334 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
    The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: life, prophecy
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    Bill Watterson
    “Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?
    Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
    Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin.
    Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin, hobbes, humor, intelligence
    556 likes

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  • #15
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth
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    Daphne du Maurier
    “Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.”
    ― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
    tags: hell, love, safe
    3193 likes

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems
    tags: bittersweet, life, songs
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    W.C. Fields
    “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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    Bill Watterson
    “I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: friends
    1682 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: humor
    1186 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
    ― Bill Watterson
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    Bill Watterson
    “Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: humor-character
    258 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report?
    Hobbes: (Reading Calvin's paper) "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender modes."
    Calvin: Academia, here I come!”
    ― Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
    tags: humor-education
    627 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “CALVIN:
    As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: life
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    Bill Watterson
    “Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Days Are Just Packed: Calvin & Hobbes Series: Book Twelve
    tags: humor-friends
    89 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.”
    ― Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
    tags: history
    191 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “CALVIN:
    This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery?
    If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it?
    And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this?
    HOBBES:
    I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday?
    CALVIN:
    Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: christmas, life, religion
    678 likes



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