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    Mignon McLaughlin
    “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.”
    ― Mignon McLaughlin
    tags: inspirational
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    Mignon McLaughlin
    “The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.”
    ― Mignon McLaughlin
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    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy
    2195 likes

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    Socrates
    “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
    ― Socrates
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  • #5
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Cornel West
    “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
    ― Cornel West
    tags: justice, love, society, wisdom
    659 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. ”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: willful-ignorance
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
    ― Ben Franklin
    tags: inspirational, proverb
    714 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success
    tags: knowledge
    870 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: excuses, humor
    330 likes

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  • #14
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: benjamin-franklin, friendship
    274 likes

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  • #15
    Benjamin Franklin
    “The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: enterprise, self-determination
    612 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: inspirational, planning, wordplay
    306 likes

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  • #17
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: inspirational
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  • #18
    Benjamin Franklin
    “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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  • #20
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    Ishmael Reed
    “No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”
    ― Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
    tags: literature, novels, writers, writing
    935 likes

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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: hell, solipsism
    633 likes

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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
    tags: information, knowledge, problems
    331 likes

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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
    tags: isolation, language, philosophy, picture, solipsism
    94 likes

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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: language, perception, power-of-words
    1650 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent
    3425 likes

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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
    22055 likes

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  • #29
    Lao Tzu
    “Act without expectation.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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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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