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#1

“Heav'n hath no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.”
― William Congreve

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#2

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed

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#3

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

tags: friendship, love

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#4

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: love

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#5

“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

tags: blind-obedience, crimes, obedience, rebellion, rule-breaking, rules

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#6

“The fact is that the greatest crimes are caused by excess and not by necessity. Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold; and hence great is the honour bestowed, not on him who kills a thief, but on him who kills a tyrant.”
― Aristotle, Politics

tags: philosophy

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#7

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

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#8

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: apothegm, beauty, truth

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#9

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: 2013, goodbye, james-carstairs, life, magnus-bane, william-herondale

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#10

“Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.”
― William James

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#11

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#12

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

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#13

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

tags: certainty, ignorance, knowledge, open-mindedness, science, willful-ignorance

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#14

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding

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#15

“What is better: to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?”
― Paarthurnax

tags: skyrim

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#16

“The curse of much knowledge is often indecision.”
― Paarthurnax

tags: knowledge, moral-disambiguity, wisdom

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#17

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#18

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

tags: knowledge, life, misattributed-to-kant, paraphrasing-herbert-spencer, science

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#19

“Doubt 鈥� is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Memoirs of a Madman

tags: doubt, knowledge, madness

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#20

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: books, civilization, education, history, knowledge, libraries, wisdom

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#21

“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

tags: ignorance, knowledge

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#22

“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: knowledge

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#23

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world

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#24

“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr

tags: religion, science

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#25

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: education, knowledge-wisdom, learning, school, science, wisdom

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#26

“Knowledge is power? No. Knowledge on its own is nothing, but the application of useful knowledge, now that is powerful.”
― Rob Liano

tags: knowledge-wisdom

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#27

“The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.”
― Aristotle

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#28

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: lovers

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#29

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

tags: aspirations, confidence, dreams, goals

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#30

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

tags: education, ethics

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