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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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“Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”
― Pursuit of Happyness

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#3

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers

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#4

“If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”
― Napoleon Hill

tags: achievement, inspirational

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#5

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
― Stephen McCranie

tags: beginner, failure, master, tried

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#6

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: humor, life, metaphor, zen

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#7

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#8

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

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#9

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#10

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#11

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

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#12

“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: gods, ideas

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#13

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#14

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
― Marc Riboud

tags: beauty, life, photo, photograph, photography, photos, picture, pictures

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#15

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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#16

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
― Nikola Tesla

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#17

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: energy, frequency, vibration

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#18

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

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#19

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#20

“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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#21

“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

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#22

“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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#23

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#24

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#25

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#26

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: 1929, viereck-interview

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#27

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

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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#28

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

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#29

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

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#30

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

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