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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Alfred Lansing
    “No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.”
    ― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
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    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: thinking
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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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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    William Arthur Ward
    “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: realist
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    Dale Carnegie
    “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun
    tags: love
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    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: opportunity
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    William Shakespeare
    “This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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  • #13
    “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
    ― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
    tags: christmas
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    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
    ― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
    tags: books, power
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    Ogden Nash
    “Tonight’s December thirty-first,
    Something is about to burst.
    The clock is crouching, dark and small,
    Like a time bomb in the hall.
    Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
    Duck! Here comes another year!”
    ― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On
    tags: december-31, new-year-s-eve, new-years, new-years-eve
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
    tags: irony, life, loneliness
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    Markus Zusak
    “It’s probably fair to say that in all the years of Hitler’s reign, no person was able to serve the Führer as loyally as me. A human doesn’t have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy.Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
    ― Markus Zusak
    tags: death
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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    Baltasar Gracián
    “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
    ― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
    tags: choice, evil, invitation, strategy
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    Susan Sontag
    “My library is an archive of longings.”
    ― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
    tags: books, library, longing
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    Wilkie Collins
    “The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
    ― Wilkie Collins, Armadale
    tags: books
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    R.A. Salvatore
    “It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
    ― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: conscience, politics, right
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    Edith Wharton
    “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
    ― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
    tags: carpe-diem, day, daytime, window
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    Arnold Lobel
    “Books to the ceiling,
    Books to the sky,
    My pile of books is a mile high.
    How I love them! How I need them!
    I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
    ― Arnold Lobel
    tags: books, reading
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    Romain Rolland
    “Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
    ― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1
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