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    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
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    Dan Brown
    “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
    tags: desire, fear, human-nature
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    Sigmund Freud
    “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: human-nature
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    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
    tags: force, human-nature, individuality, liberty, strength, uniqueness
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: human-nature
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: being-human, happiness, human, human-nature, humanism, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, life, life-and-living, living, sadness
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    Jess C. Scott
    “Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life
    tags: cyberpunk, elven, elves, family, friends, friendship, human-behavior, human-nature, humanity, humankind, humans, inside-ourselves, insight, insightful, life, life-lessons, love, meaning, meaning-of-life, nq-mobile-omar-khan, omar-khan-nq-mobile, reflection, reflective, social-commentary, social-issues, social-science, society, truth, urban-fantasy, urban-fantasy-series, ya-urban-fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adult-series
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    John Steinbeck
    “And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: country-life, human-nature
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    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: human-nature, people, truth
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: dancing, feeling, human, human-nature, humanism, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life, life-and-living, living, living-life, passion, purity, sacredness, sanctity
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: charlotte-bronte, human-nature, jane-eyre, life
    393 likes

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    Max Brooks
    “Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”
    ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    tags: human-nature, scepticism, weakness, zombie
    488 likes

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    Erol Ozan
    “Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.”
    ― Erol Ozan
    tags: altruism, empathy, helping, human-nature, life-lesson, life-lessons
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    Billie Letts
    “...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.”
    ― Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is
    tags: goodness, human-nature
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    Susanna Kearsley
    “The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.”
    ― Susanna Kearsley, Mariana
    tags: change, life, past
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: romantic
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  • #20
    “Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
    ― Douglas McGrath
    tags: adaptation, emma, movie-quote, mr-knightley
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  • #21
    Jane Austen
    “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: men, mountains, rocks
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    Richard Wright
    “Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.”
    ― Richard Wright, Cliffs Notes on Wright's Black Boy
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    Richard Wright
    “Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
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    Richard Wright
    “All literature is protest.”
    ― Richard Wright
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    Richard Wright
    “Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.”
    ― Richard Wright, Native Son
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    Richard Wright
    “I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
    tags: african-american, inspirational
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    Richard Wright
    “The thing to do was to act just like others acted, live like they lived, and while they were not looking, do what you wanted.”
    ― Richard Wright
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “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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    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humor, philosophy
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