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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
    177159 likes

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    H.G. Wells
    “Our true nationality is mankind.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: nationalism, racism
    523 likes

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    Frederick Douglass
    “The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: civil-liberties, equality, race, racism
    222 likes

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    James Baldwin
    “Whoever debases others is debasing himself.”
    ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
    tags: life, love, racism
    250 likes

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    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
    10956 likes

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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
    7191 likes

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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
    7694 likes

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    Dorothea Mackellar
    “I love a sunburnt country,
    A land of sweeping plains,
    Of ragged mountain ranges,
    Of droughts and flooding rains.
    I love her far horizons,
    I love her jewel-sea,
    Her beauty and her terror –
    The wide brown land for me!”
    ― Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar
    tags: australia, australian, poetry
    973 likes

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  • #9
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Stop worrying about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: peanuts
    739 likes

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  • #10
    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought
    2893 likes

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    George Orwell
    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: politics-language
    2162 likes

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    Nelson Mandela
    “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: language
    672 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148447 likes

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    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
    18676 likes

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    Michael Scott
    “Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”
    ― Michael Scott
    tags: the-office
    18 likes

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    Samuel Beckett
    “Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
    296 likes

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    Samuel Beckett
    “The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
    tags: crying, equilibrium, inspirational, tears
    927 likes

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    Samuel Beckett
    “VLADIMIR: I missed you . . . and at the same time I was happy. Isn't that a strange thing?

    ESTRAGON: (shocked). Happy?

    VLADIMIR: Perhaps it's not quite the right word.

    ESTRAGON: And now?

    VLADIMIR: Now? . . . (Joyous.) There you are again . . . (Indifferent.) There we are again. . .
    (Gloomy.) There I am again.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
    tags: irrationality, loneliness, love, nonsense, solitude
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: busy-learning, competence, job-doing, productivity
    404 likes

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley
    1298 likes

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    Steve Maraboli
    “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
    ― Steve Maraboli
    tags: destiny, happiness, history, inspirational, let-go, letting-go, life, motivational, moving-on, success
    4157 likes

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  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: history
    2254 likes

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  • #24
    Christopher Paolini
    “People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: history, humor, memory, recall
    2000 likes

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    José Martí
    “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
    ― Jose Marti
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    1777 likes

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  • #26
    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
    10311 likes

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  • #27
    Nicolas Chamfort
    “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
    ― Nicolas Chamfort
    tags: philosophy
    14972 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
    8337 likes

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    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    ― Benjamin Spock
    tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance
    5377 likes

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    Malcolm X
    “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
    ― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary
    tags: philosophy, politics
    4315 likes



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