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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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    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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Neil Gaiman
    “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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  • #5
    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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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
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  • #7
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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  • #8
    Kiera Cass
    “The best people all have some kind of scar.”
    ― Kiera Cass, The One
    tags: emotional-pain, scars
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  • #9
    Melissa Albert
    “She talked like a woman who knew more books than people.”
    ― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood
    tags: books
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  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art
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  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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  • #12
    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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    Lemony Snicket
    “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
    tags: life
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    Lemony Snicket
    “...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
    tags: crying
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
    tags: humor
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  • #16
    Lemony Snicket
    “The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
    tags: eavesdropping, gossip
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  • #17
    Lemony Snicket
    “They're book addicts.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill
    tags: books, humor, reading
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  • #18
    Lemony Snicket
    “Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
    tags: misery
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
    tags: morning
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    Lemony Snicket
    “It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
    tags: boring, rudeness, sympathy
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  • #21
    Lemony Snicket
    “There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
    tags: books
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  • #22
    Lemony Snicket
    “Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The End
    tags: catalog, doomed-to-repeat-it, history, humor, paraphrased
    488 likes

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  • #23
    Lemony Snicket
    “There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window
    tags: book-lover, books
    424 likes

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  • #24
    Lemony Snicket
    “Waiting is one of life’s hardships.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room
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  • #25
    Lemony Snicket
    “At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: bad, courage, good, lemony-snicket, series-of-unforunate-events
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  • #26
    Lemony Snicket
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, horseradish, lemony-snicket, true
    166 likes

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  • #27
    Lemony Snicket
    “You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?
    tags: all-the-wrong-questions, books, bookworm, lemony-snicket, libraries, reading, shouldn-t-you-be-in-school
    143 likes

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  • #28
    Lemony Snicket
    “Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: greed, lemony-snicket, money, occupy-wall-street
    70 likes

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  • #29
    Lemony Snicket
    “Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator
    tags: a-series-of-unfortunate-events, books-reading, lemony-snicket, read, the-ersatz-elevator
    45 likes

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  • #30
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fate, humor, simile
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