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“Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.”

“Tell 'em to count to ten over him and he'll get up.”

“The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.”

“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.”

“A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.”

“Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down.”

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"My dear Laura. My congratulations to Paul le candidat du Jardin des Plantes—et des animaux. Being, in his quality as a nigger, a degree nearer to the rest of the animal kingdom than the rest of us, he…"

— Friedrich Engels

Philosophy1796–1860

#time

"He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one."

— Alexander Pope

Literature1688–1744

#creativity

"I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left …"

— Ernest Hemingway

Literature1899–1961

#love

"He closed his eyes and tried to recover in his imagination the mudbrick walls and reed roof of her stories, the garden of prickly pear, the chickens scampering for the feed scattered by the little bar…"

— J. M. Coetzee

Literature1940

#family