Top 100 Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

#1. Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

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#2. They laughed at Edison and Einstein, but somehow I still feel uncomfortable when they laugh at me.

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#3. Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

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#4. If I do enough different things in enough different ways, I may, eventually, do something right.

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#5. By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.

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#6. My object is to save the world, while still leading a pleasant life.

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#7. Why is the place where I want to be so often so far from where I am?

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#8. The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

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#9. At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?

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#10. Unlike most other people, I'm just an average person.

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#11. Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

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#12. I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

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#13. The best thing about being too late is that there's no more need to hurry.

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#14. Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

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#15. How can I fail when I have no purpose?

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#16. You can't stop progress, but you can help decide what is progress and what isn't.

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#17. I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.

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#18. There ought to be a better way than government to run the world.

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#19. Things are gradually falling into place on top of me.

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#20. We must have courage, faith, and lunch together sometime soon.

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#21. One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

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#22. Everything takes longer than you expect, even when you expect it to take longer than you expect.

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#23. Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?

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#24. Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

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#25. I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

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#26. If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments.

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#27. Most of my problems have no answer or else the answer is worse than the problem.

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#28. It's sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing.

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#29. I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence.

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#30. It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

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#31. There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

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#32. I've found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody.

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#33. All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

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#34. I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

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#35. In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.

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#36. My time is far too valuable for me to spend any of it trying to improve myself.

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#37. The future seems to be in good hands, it's the past I'm worried about.

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#38. I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion.

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#39. Having failed to conquer myself, my best hope now is to arrange an alliance with myself.

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#40. Unfortunately, it's possible to be able to do something extremely well that nobody ever wants done.

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#41. Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

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#42. I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.

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#43. One thing about pain: It proves you're alive.

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#44. One problem I have definitely solved is the problem of not having enough to worry about.

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#45. Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.

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#46. There's only one thing more beautiful than a beautiful dream, and that's a beautiful reality.

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#47. My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.

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#48. I never miss reality when I'm not in it, but it's sometimes nice to come back to.

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#49. I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

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#50. All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

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#51. If I didn't have most of my friends, I wouldn't have most of my problems.

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#52. I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective.

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#53. If I can survive death, I can probably survive anything.

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#54. Is there life in other families?

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#55. Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.

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#56. With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

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#57. Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

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#58. If you can't go where people are happier, try to make people happier where you are.

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#59. A good friend is worth pursuing ... but why would a good friend be running away?

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#60. Why is my autograph so little in demand, except on checks?

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#61. There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.

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#62. I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

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#63. Do you believe in apathy at first sight?

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#64. I can no longer face life, so I've decided to go through the rest of it backwards.

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#65. Before i knew the best part of my life had come ,it had gone ...

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#66. The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

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#67. Where would I be without my sense of direction.

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#68. It's hard to face tomorrow, but it's easier than facing no tomorrow.

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#69. The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

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#70. If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve

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#71. I will always love the false image I had of you.

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#72. For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

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#73. If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.

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#74. To the Tax Office: All is over between us. Please don't attempt to communicate with me again.

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#75. There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you.

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#76. We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

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#77. Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

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#78. One possible reason that I don't believe in fate is that I wasn't fated to.

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#79. We owe it to our past futile sacrifices to continue making further futile sacrifices.

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#80. By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving

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#81. According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

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#82. Better start rushing before the rush begins!

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#83. Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

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#84. I have seen the future! Go back!

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#85. Doing it wrong fast is at least better than doing it wrong slowly.

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#86. We're still benefiting from the sacrifices of people long dead, but we're also suffering from their errors.

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#87. The trouble is that sex is a force of nature, and reason is not.

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#88. The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

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#89. Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

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#90. What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry?

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#91. I didn't mind being a public executioner, once I got the hang of it.

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#92. My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

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#93. If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.

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#94. I want to appreciate you now, and avoid the rush.

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#95. Beware! I'm acting under the influence of human nature.

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#96. We've been through so much together, and most of it was your fault.

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#97. In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.

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#98. Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.

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#99. Without me there could be no everybody.

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#100. I believe the stars can affect human lives, particularly by providing employment for thousands of astrologers.

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