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• I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.

  Helene Hanff

  Book, Home, Despair

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• Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway. Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.

  Adrian Tan

  Jobs, Hate, Play

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• The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Moving, Law, Choices

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.77, SCB Distributors

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• Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

  Alan Furst

  Heart, Paris, Western

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• If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Travel, Sex, Hate

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• You're not an African because you're born in Africa. You're an African because Africa is born in you. It's in your genes.... your DNA....your entire biological make up. Whether you like it or not, that's the way it is. However, if you were to embrace this truth with open arms....my, my, my....what a wonderful thing.

  Marimba Ani

  Dna, Arms, Way

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• We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.

  Chaim Weizmann

  World, Helping, Palestine

  Judische Rundschau, No. 4, 1920.

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• Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

  Larry Flynt

  Freedom Of Speech, Speech, Protect

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• I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Power, Who I Am, Watches

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Mean, Equality

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• How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Cultural Relativism, Hunger, Hungry

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, September 1, 2004.

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• Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

  William S. Burroughs

  Goal, Suffering, Facts

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg (1982). “Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957”, Full Court Pr

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• Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Flower, Heaven

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• Here’s how to know if you have the makeup to be an investor. How would you handle the following situation? Let’s say you own a Procter & Gamble in your portfolio and the stock price goes down by half. Do you like it better? If it falls in half, do you reinvest dividends? Do you take cash out of savings to buy more? If you have the confidence to do that, then you’re an investor. If you don’t, you’re not an investor, you’re a speculator, and you shouldn’t be in the stock market in the first place.

  Seth Klarman

  Fall, Makeup, Saving

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• To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.

  A. A. Milne

  Book, Love You, Hands

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.3, Egmont UK

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• Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Success, Education

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.120, Library of Alexandria

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• She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing.

  Marcel Proust

  Clouds, Laughing, Tea

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove”, Vintage

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  You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

  Clara Barton

  Nursing, Thinking, Needs

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• To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Able, Given

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.102, Open Road Media

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• The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?

  Matt Cutts

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.

  Max Muller

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.33, Book Tree

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  I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

  Ice Cube

  People, Stuck

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• Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

  Elvis Presley

  Moving, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

  Lou Reed

  Inspirational, Positive, Beautiful

  "Lou Reed" by Stuart Berman, pitchfork.com. October 28, 2013.

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• When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crush, Military, Land

  "Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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