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#1

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed

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#2

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#3

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#4

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

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#5

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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#6

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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#7

“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: danger, righteousness, war

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#8

“I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
― Tim Daly

tags: adventure, challenge, danger, excitement, self, skiing, sports

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#9

“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
― Grace Willows, To Kiss a King

tags: adventure, alpha, alpha-male, amour, betrayal, books, choice, comedy, danger, daydream, daydreams, deceipt, deception, desire, drama, e-book, erotic, everlasting, exotic, fear, forever-love, fun, guns, hope, hot, hot-intrigue, killer, king, life-changing, longing, love, love-at-first-sight, lovers, marriage, memories, murder, palace, passion, passionate, prince, proposal, psychotic, queen, rescue, revenge, romance, romantic, royal, royalty, scary, sex, sexy, soul-mate, soul-searching, sunset, survival, terror, timeless

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#10

“Facts don't care about your feelings.”
― Ben Shapiro

tags: emotion, facts, feelings, logic, thinking, thought, truth

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#11

“There is no such thing as 'your truth'. There is the truth and your opinion.”
― Ben Shapiro

tags: absolutes, opinion, relativism, truth

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#12

“Without a clear moral vision, we devolve into moral relativism, and from there, into oblivion.”
― Ben Shapiro, Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future

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#13

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes

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#14

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
― John Adams, The Portable John Adams

tags: evidence, facts, forefather, passion

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#15

“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

tags: education, lifelong-learning, reading

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#16

“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .”
― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States

tags: cherish, knowledge, read, think

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#17

“The Constitution of the Unitied States of America Preamble We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article I - The Legislative Branch Section 1 - The Legislature All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”
― Founding Fathers, The Constitution of the United States of America, with all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and The Articles of Confederation, annotated

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#18

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
― Founding Fathers, The Declaration of Independence

tags: created-equal, right-to-life, rights

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#19

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
― Samuel Adams

tags: liberty, tyranny

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#20

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
― Samuel Adams

tags: government, liberty, patriotism

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#21

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

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#22

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics

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#23

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books, honesty, wisdom

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#24

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion

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#25

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: education, illiteracy, journalism, literature

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#26

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: banks, debt, deficit-spending, government, loans, political-science, politics

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#27

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, jefferson, security, thomas, thomas-jefferson

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#28

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: writing

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#29

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: politics

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#30

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: liberty, political-philosophy, politics

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