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Bertrand Russell's best quotes (the ones he really wrote)

1 Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
2 Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
3 The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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J. D. Salinger's best quotes, from The Catcher in the Rye to Franny and Zooey

1 If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like…
2 Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
3 I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

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Audre Lorde's most powerful quotes (with their source)

1 Your silence will not protect you.
2 I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
3 In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

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Sigmund Freud's best quotes – and the cigar he never mentioned

1 Where id is, there shall ego be.
2 The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
3 Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.

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Terry Pratchett's best quotes from the Discworld

1 Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
2 The Captain Samuel Vimes «Boots» theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
3 Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

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The best Simpsons quotes of all time

1 D'oh!
2 Ay, caramba!
3 Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

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The funniest Woody Allen quotes

1 It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
2 Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
3 I don't believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Grace Kelly ❤ 4 · ▲ 198 · 13 items

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Aristotle quotes: what he really said and what he didn't

1 All men by nature desire to know.
2 Nature does nothing in vain.
3 One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day.

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📿 Proverbs & sayings

The best-known Dutch proverbs and their English equivalents

1 When the cat's away, the mice will play.
2 The apple does not fall far from the tree.
3 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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Horace's most famous quotes (with the Latin and the line)

1 Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.
2 Dare to know.
3 Remember to keep a calm mind in difficult times.

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Kenji Miyazawa's most famous lines (with sources)

1 Unbeaten by the rain, unbeaten by the wind, unbowed by snow or summer heat, with a strong body, free of greed, never angry…
2 There can be no happiness for the individual until the whole world is happy.
3 I'm not afraid of that great darkness anymore. I will go and look for everyone's true happiness.

Yuka Aoki ❤ 4 · ▲ 151 · 14 items

💪 Motivational quotes

Ayrton Senna's most inspiring quotes

1 Whoever you are, always aim for great strength, great determination and (…) great faith in God, and one day you will get there.
2 … When I have to overtake, I will overtake. Every driver has his limit. Mine is a little above everyone else's.
3 What matters is winning. Everything, always. This idea that what matters is taking part is pure demagoguery.

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Epictetus' best quotes

1 Men are disturbed not by things, but by the opinions about things.
2 Do not seek for things to happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
3 Man, if you are anybody, go and walk alone, talk with yourself, and don't hide in the chorus.

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Miyamoto Musashi's Dokkōdō: the 21 precepts of "The Way of Walking Alone"

1 6. Do not regret what you have done.
2 2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
3 1. Do not go against the ways of the world.

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William Blake's most famous lines

1 To see a world in a grain of sand / And a Heaven in a wild flower
2 Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour.
3 Bring me my bow of burning gold: / Bring me my arrows of desire

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Kurt Vonnegut's best quotes

1 So it goes.
2 If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
3 God damn it, you've got to be kind.

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🎬 Movie quotes

The most legendary lines from «Amanece, que no es poco»

1 Mayor, we are all contingent, but you are necessary!
2 By order of the priest, it is hereby announced that God is one and triune.
3 He's dying divinely on me.

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The most beautiful quotes from Van Gogh's letters

1 Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.
2 The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
3 The financier is the desolation of the artist.

otaku_nyc ❤ 3 · ▲ 144 · 13 items

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The most famous lines from El Chavo del 8

1 That's it, that's it, that's it!
2 It was unintentionally on purpose.
3 Professor Jirafales! Would you like to come in for a little cup of coffee?

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Charles Darwin's best quotes – and the one he never said

1 …from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
2 Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
3 I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

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The most famous quotes from The Fellowship of the Ring (the book)

1 All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
2 One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, / One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
3 Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

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🤣 Jokes

Every winner of the Funniest Joke of the Fringe, ranked

1 I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.
2 I was going to sail around the globe in the world's smallest ship, but I bottled it.
3 I thought the word 'Caesarean' began with the letter 'S' but when I looked in the dictionary, it was in the 'C' section.

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The most famous quotes from Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita

1 Manuscripts don't burn.
2 Never ask for anything! Never, and above all from those more powerful than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!
3 A brick will never fall on anyone's head out of the blue.

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🤣 Jokes

Every No. 1 "salaryman senryu" in Japan (1991–2024)

1 まだ寝てる帰ってみればもう寝てる
2 『ゴハンよ』と呼ばれて行けばタマだった
3 いい家内 10年経ったらおっ家内

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💬 Quotes & phrases

Bertrand Russell's best quotes (the ones he really wrote)

J. D. Salinger's best quotes, from The Catcher in the Rye to Franny and Zooey

Audre Lorde's most powerful quotes (with their source)

Sigmund Freud's best quotes – and the cigar he never mentioned

Terry Pratchett's best quotes from the Discworld

The best Simpsons quotes of all time

The funniest Woody Allen quotes

Aristotle quotes: what he really said and what he didn't

The best-known Dutch proverbs and their English equivalents

Horace's most famous quotes (with the Latin and the line)

Kenji Miyazawa's most famous lines (with sources)

Ayrton Senna's most inspiring quotes

Epictetus' best quotes

Miyamoto Musashi's Dokkōdō: the 21 precepts of "The Way of Walking Alone"

William Blake's most famous lines

Kurt Vonnegut's best quotes

The most legendary lines from «Amanece, que no es poco»

The most beautiful quotes from Van Gogh's letters

The most famous lines from El Chavo del 8

Charles Darwin's best quotes – and the one he never said

The most famous quotes from The Fellowship of the Ring (the book)

Every winner of the Funniest Joke of the Fringe, ranked

The most famous quotes from Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita

Every No. 1 "salaryman senryu" in Japan (1991–2024)