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#1

“If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.”
― Mario Andretti

tags: racing, speed, startups, wisdom

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#2

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

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#3

“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: mind

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#4

“He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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#5

“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”
― George F. Will

tags: humor

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#6

“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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― Paula Poundstone

tags: death, sin, taxes

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#7

“Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

tags: advertisement, media, murder, television

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#8

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
― Michel de Montaigne

tags: reason-education

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#9

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

tags: humor

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#10

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
― Voltaire

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#11

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
― Edgar Bergen

tags: humor-work

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#12

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
― Phyllis Diller

tags: anger, funny, sleep

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#13

“I am at two with nature.”
― Woody Allen

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#14

“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
― Arnold Lobel

tags: books, reading

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#15

“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.”
― Rodney Dangerfield

tags: psychiatry

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#16

“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”
― Stanley Kubrick

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#19

“It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.”
― Tom Stoppard, Jumpers

tags: democracy, political-philosophy

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#20

“There are two types of people-those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are.”
― Frederick L. Collins

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#21

“Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

tags: chastity, continence

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#22

“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: truism

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#23

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

tags: genius

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#24

“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”
― James Thurber

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#25

“We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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#26

“Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.”
― Evan Davis

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#27

“When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”
― Brendan Behan

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#28

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
― Jean Kerr

tags: beauty

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#29

“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.”
― Carl Sagan

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#30

“My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.”
― Rodney Dangerfield

tags: marriage

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