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#1

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#2

“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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#3

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

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#4

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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#5

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#6

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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#7

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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#8

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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#9

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
― Max Lucado

tags: inspirational, love

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#10

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

tags: activism

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#11

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

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#12

“Time doth flit; oh shit.”
― Dorothy Parker

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#13

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”
― erma bombeck

tags: philosophy

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#14

“Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been. ”
― Jimmy Buffett

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#15

“Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. ”
― Jimmy Buffett

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#16

“I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.”
― George Carlin

tags: organized-religion, religion

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#17

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love

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#18

“It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.”
― Julia Roberts

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#19

“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
― Martha Graham

tags: dance, dancing, life, live-in-the-moment, movement, present

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#20

“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
― Twyla Tharp

tags: dance, performance

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#21

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#22

“Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: action, progress

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#23

“Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.”
― Chris Rock

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#24

“A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.”
― Tennessee Williams

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#25

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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#26

“Put on a sweater.”
― Jimmy Carter

tags: conservation, efficiency, environment

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#27

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#28

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

-The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)”
― Agatha Christie, The Hound of Death and Other Stories

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