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millie_brighton

@millie-brighton · member since Apr 30, 2020

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The most famous quotes from The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1 And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
2 To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.
3 Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

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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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Margaret Atwood's sharpest quotes (with the book they come from)

1 Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. (Don't let the bastards grind you down.)
2 "Why do men feel threatened by women?" … "They're afraid women will laugh at them." … "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed."
3 War is what happens when language fails.

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Isaac Newton quotes: real, disputed and misattributed

1 To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
2 Hypotheses non fingo – I frame no hypotheses.
3 If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.

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The most famous Sherlock Holmes quotes (from the books)

1 When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
2 It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
3 My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

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