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    Howard Zinn
    “Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.”
    ― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
    tags: fear, inaction, pessimism, self-fulfilling-prophecy
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “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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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
    34800 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
    23479 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: cleanliness, consciousness, corruption, feet, individuality, mind, purity
    4303 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history, humor, writing
    4564 likes

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  • #8
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    5120 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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  • #11
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: civic-duty, democracy, elections, voters
    364 likes

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  • #12
    Woodrow Wilson
    “The seed of revolution is repression.”
    ― Woodrow Wilson
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  • #13
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: success
    1443 likes

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    Golda Meir
    “To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.”
    ― Golda Meir
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  • #15
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
    45292 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, success
    2367 likes

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    Thomas A. Edison
    “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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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: bravery, decisiveness, failure, inaction, success, timidity
    2146 likes

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    Theodor Herzl
    “If you will it, it is no dream.”
    ― Theodor Herzl
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  • #20
    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
    3902 likes

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  • #21
    Hayley Williams
    “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
    ― Hayley Williams
    tags: falling, knowing, lesson-on-living, life, paramore, singer, stand, success, truth, understanding
    2474 likes

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  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: education, government, political-philosophy, public-duty, voting
    323 likes

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  • #24
    David Ben-Gurion
    “In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.”
    ― David Ben-Gurion
    tags: israel, miracles
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    David Ben-Gurion
    “We must fight the war as though there were no White Paper, and fight the White Paper as though there were no war.”
    ― David Ben-Gurion
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    Golda Meir
    “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
    ― Golda Meir, My Life
    tags: censorship, history, orwellian, past, present
    307 likes

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  • #27
    Golda Meir
    “In Israel, we read from right to left. [To Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, who had written her that he considers himself 'an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third']”
    ― Golda Meir
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    Shimon Peres
    “If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.”
    ― Shimon Peres
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: decisiveness, inaction, just-do-it, timidity, wisdom
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: action, choices, decision, decisiveness, inaction, right-and-wrong
    759 likes



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