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#1

“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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#2

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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#3

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
― Lillian Hellman

tags: integrity

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#4

“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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#5

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: truth

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#6

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#7

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#8

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#9

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#10

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

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#11

“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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#12

“We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.”
― Brian Cox

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#13

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#14

“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: animals, attributed-no-source, friends, humor, vegetarianism

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#15

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain

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#16

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

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#17

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals

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#18

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
― Mark Twain

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#19

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect

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#20

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
― Mark Twain

tags: animals, cats, dogs, grace, reticence

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#21

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: animals

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#22

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: conflict, politics, war

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#23

“If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
― Groucho marx

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#24

“Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

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#26

“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”
― Mark Twain

tags: blush, wordplay

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#27

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: animals, morality, vegetarianism

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#28

“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, humans

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#29

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
― Alice Walker

tags: animals, men, race, women

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#30

“He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

tags: beauty, horse, innocence, truth

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