Words of Wisdom

Quotes, because everyone loves quotes. Don’t we?
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Albus Dumbledore is Obi-Wan Kenobi. His destiny is to be wise, annoyingly cryptic, semi-manipulative, and then die.
–Sam in his HBP predictions

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The opposite of a small truth is a falsehood. The opposite of a profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
–Neils Bohr

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Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
–Groucho Marx

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Never judge a book by its movie.
–J. W. Eagan

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
–Sir Arthur Helps

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It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
–Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
–Albert Einstein

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
–Albert Einstein

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Everything I learned in life, I learned from Clamp.

+ If you’re precious to your brother, you’re probably doomed.
+ Actually, if you’re precious to anyone, you’re doomed.
+ In fact, you’re probably just doomed anyways.

+ Cherry blossoms are a sign of good luck.
+ Cherry blossoms are a sign of bad luck.
+ Cherry blossoms are- sod that, if you see cherry blossoms, run.

+There is no such thing as coincidence. There is only Histuzen.

+Eyes, especially magic ones, are in high demand.
+Treasure your eyes. You never know when they’ll be taken away.
+Show your true love not by exchanging rings, but eyes.

+Nothing says love like agreeing to be somebody’s primary food source.
+Torture and mind games are just another way of showing you care.

+Fire doesn’t burn unless the plot requires it to.
+Blood is aesthetic.
+Feathers have the ultimate power. Buy a chicken.

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Knowledge is power. Power corrupts.
Study hard. Be evil.

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God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
-Good Omens

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The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
–Terry Pratchett, in Discworld

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-Winston Churshill

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
-Wally Amos

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Most folk are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
-Abraham Lincoln

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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-Helen Keller

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If the facts don’t fir the theory, change the facts.
-Albert Einstein

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Be who you are and say what you think, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

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Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools, because they have to say something.

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Committee- a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
-Fred Allen

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Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don’t.
-Melody Beattie

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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
-Mark Twain

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Collected from people, sites, books, fics or just random funess~