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    John Dewey
    “A problem well put is half solved.”
    ― John Dewey
    tags: knowledge, problem-solving, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    John Dewey
    “Hunger not to have, but to be”
    ― John Dewey
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    John Dewey
    “The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”
    ― John Dewey
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    Lao Tzu
    “Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: actions, character, destiny, habits, thoughts, words
    616 likes

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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
    114362 likes

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    Warren Buffett
    “If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: charity, finance, helping-others, inspiration, noblesse-oblige, success
    310 likes

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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128899 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92182 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81813 likes

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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78308 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
    41002 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
    49879 likes

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    John Dewey
    “The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
    ― John Dewey
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    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
    2776 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
    16752 likes

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    Aristotle
    “Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: anger
    1892 likes

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    John Dewey
    “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
    ― John Dewey
    tags: experience, learning-from-mistakes, mistakes, wisdom
    218 likes

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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130146 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177073 likes

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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119056 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101565 likes

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    Warren Buffett
    “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: business
    556 likes

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    Warren Buffett
    “Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: fear, greed, investment-advice
    383 likes

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    Warren Buffett
    “Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: education, risk
    262 likes

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    Warren Buffett
    “There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?”
    ― Warren Buffett
    197 likes

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    Warren Buffett
    “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: assertiveness, discernment, mission, purpose
    231 likes

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    Warren Buffett
    “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    185 likes

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  • #29
    Warren Buffett
    “When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    111 likes

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    Dan Simmons
    “After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.”
    ― Dan Simmons, Hyperion
    127 likes



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