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    Annie Proulx
    “And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.”
    ― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
    tags: love
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Douglas Adams
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: humor, perspective, science
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    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
    Delicious Ambiguity.”
    ― Gilda Radner
    tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
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    Muhammad Ali
    “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
    ― Muhammad Ali
    tags: friendship
    5423 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: life
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  • #7
    Bill Watterson
    “I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
    tags: education
    682 likes

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  • #8
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor
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    Nelson Mandela
    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
    2909 likes

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  • #10
    E.E. Cummings
    “I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
    than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: constructive-living, inspirational
    1362 likes

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  • #11
    Pablo Picasso
    “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: inspirational
    641 likes

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    Alvin Toffler
    “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
    ― Alvin Toffler
    tags: futuristic
    783 likes

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    Immanuel Kant
    “For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
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  • #14
    Wayne Gretzky
    “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
    ― Wayne Gretzky
    tags: sports
    96 likes

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    Barack Obama
    “We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.”
    ― Barack Obama
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    Toni Morrison
    “As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: dreams, power
    332 likes

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  • #17
    Queen Latifah
    “instinct leads me to another flow”
    ― Queen Latifah
    tags: change, instinct
    28 likes

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  • #18
    Charlie Parker
    “If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.”
    ― Charlie Parker
    tags: life, modeling
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78318 likes

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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
    tags: inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: education
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  • #22
    Stephen King
    “Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: art-on-writing
    558 likes

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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
    11483 likes

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  • #24
    Albert Einstein
    “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
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    Libba Bray
    “And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
    ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
    tags: change
    1992 likes

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  • #26
    Nelson Mandela
    “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: change, education
    6280 likes

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  • #27
    Barack Obama
    “We are the change we have been waiting for.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: carpe-diem, change
    466 likes

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    Harriet Tubman
    “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars, to change the world.”
    ― Harriet Tubman
    tags: inspirational
    745 likes

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    Jim Henson
    “[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
    ― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
    tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
    2020 likes

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  • #30
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.

    If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: antoine-de-saint-exupéry, motivation, teaching
    633 likes



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