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Quote: If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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Oscar Wilde
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If you pretend to...

Quote: You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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You look up when...

Quote: While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Oscar Wilde
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While we look to...

Quote: Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Sense perceptions can be...

Quote: Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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Mark Twain
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Thunder is good, thunder...

Quote: No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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Mark Twain
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No sinner is ever...

Quote: That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote: Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
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Buddha
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Better it is to...

Quote: Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.
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Walt Disney
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Quote: That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
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Marcus Aurelius
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That which is not...

Quote: God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
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C. S. Lewis
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God is no fonder...

Quote: I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
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Abraham Lincoln
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I hold that while...

Quote: Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Remember: Matter. How tiny...

Quote: We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
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Stephen Hawking
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We are just an...

Quote: Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it.
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Confucius
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Those who know the...

Quote: Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
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Voltaire
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Opinion has caused more...

Quote: It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.
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Stephen Hawking
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Quote: For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.
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Anthony Bourdain
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For a moment, or...

Quote: Money often costs too much.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Money often costs too...

Quote: My love's more richer than my tongue.
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William Shakespeare
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My love's more richer...

Quote: I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.
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Stephen Hawking
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I have found far...

Quote: Let yourself become living poetry. Rumi
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Rumi
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Let yourself become living...

Quote: I don't have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.
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Billy Graham
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I don't have to...

Quote: Abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and further, simplicity in my way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
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Rumi
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Quote: The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Quote: The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb.
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Elon Musk
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Quote: Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Quote: In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.
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Aristotle
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Quote: He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who fights with...

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