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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#2

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#3

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#5

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#6

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#7

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#8

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational

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#9

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

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#10

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

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#11

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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#12

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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#13

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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#14

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#15

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

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#16

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

tags: daring, risk, success

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#17

“I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
― Machiavelli Niccolo

tags: political-theory, sociology

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#18

“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

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#19

“One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

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#20

“Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.”
― Michael Scott, The Sorceress

tags: game, lesson, life, michael-scott, niccolo-machiavelli, the-sorceress

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#21

“One Must Be A Fox In Order To Recognize Traps, And A Lion To Frighten Off Wolves”
― NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

tags: maklbaba-alkali

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#22

“The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.”
― William Westmoreland

tags: military, war, westmoreland

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#23

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
― Isaac Newton

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#24

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
― Maya Angelou

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#25

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: character, influence, leadership

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#26

“A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: good-leader, leader, leaders, people

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#27

“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain”
― Henry Ford

tags: common-sense, inspirational

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#28

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome

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#29

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato

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#30

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
― Plato

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#31

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
― Zhuangzi, The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu

tags: philosophy, spirituality

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