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• I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Science, Simple

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  A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, Challenges, Sense Of Humor

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• ...you are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be with that person.

  Greg Behrendt

  Live Your Life, Gave Up, Defined

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.251, Harmony

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• I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Thinking, Looks, Normal

  Anthony Horowitz (2007). “Ark Angel”, p.75, Penguin

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• I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

  Isabel Allende

  Men, Gestures, Realizing

  Isabel Allende (2016). “The Stories of Eva Luna”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in my mind. I don’t want this person to get their short story back with harsh red pen marks all over it. Purple is much friendlier.

  Susane Colasanti

  Teacher, Purple, Forever

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.58, Penguin

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• I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Upset, Trying

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• Sorry, Ms. Terwilliger. I'm flattered that you think I'm such an upstanding person, but I'm already caught up in one epic battle of good versus evil. I don't need another.

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Epic, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.93, Penguin

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• That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Long, Want

  Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.226, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• because it's Spring thingS dare to do people (& not the other way round)because it 's A pril Lives lead their own persons(in stead of everybodyelse's)but what's wholly marvellous my Darling is that you & i are more than you & i(be ca us e It's we)

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, People, Way

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• This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Strong, Crazy, Animal

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• It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Tea, Want

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• Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?

  James A. Owen

  Kind, Make Things Happen, Happens

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• I hate Erma," I told Mom... "You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. "Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that." "Oh yeah?" I said. "How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?" "Hitler loved dogs," Mom said without hesitation.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Dog, Hate

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• At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Years, Funeral

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.220, The Overlook Press

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• It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It’s infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn’t too great.

  Veronica Roth

  Stupid, Loss, Giving

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• Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.

  Margaret Atwood

  Complicated, Said, Immortal

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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• Contribute to the world. Help people. Help one person. Help someone cross the street today. Help someone with directions unless you have a terrible sense of direction. Help someone who is trying to help you. Just help. Make an impact. Show someone you care. Say yes instead of no. Say something nice. Smile. Make eye contact. Hug. Kiss. Get naked.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Smile, Nice, Eye

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• Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Interesting, Trying

  "Thief of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

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• We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Country, Thinking, Average

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• There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

  Tom Waits

  Fall, Important, Trying

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• I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Hero, Mean, Role Models

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.

  Wil Wheaton

  Secret Identity, Should Have, Evil

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• If a person cast no shadow at all, he couldn't be alive. His existence became meaningless.Execrating Apophis by destroying his shadow would cut his connection to the mortal world completely. He'd never be able to rise again. I finally understood why he'd been so anxious to burn Setne's scrolls, and he was afraid of this spell. (Carter Kane)

  Rick Riordan

  Cutting, Shadow, Connections

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