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“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”

“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”

“It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.”

“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

“The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.”

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"For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable."

— Ken MacLeod

Science1954

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"I never learned to throw a baseball with confidence, but I knew how to aim a newspaper well enough. I could make my mark from the sidewalk—one hand on the handlebar—with deadeye nonchalance. The paper…"

— Richard Rodriguez

Literature1958

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"Doctors is all swabs... and that doctor there, why, what do he know about seafaring men? I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like t…"

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Literature1850–1894

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"You can't argue with facts and figures. Either people want it, in which case they pay for it, or it's two guys sitting around at the Plaza having a discussion, which means nothing. I mean, Titanic. I …"

— Gene Simmons

Music1949

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