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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’

    Which of us was right, boss?”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
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    Harper Lee
    “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: integrity
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    Harper Lee
    “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: bible, god, hatred, judgement, religion
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    “As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness – to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak out against the horrors of political inaction... The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.”
    ― James Orbinski, An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century
    tags: humanitarian
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: existence, truth
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    Ken Kesey
    “All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”
    ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    tags: psychology
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    Ken Kesey
    “He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum”
    ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
    tags: very-apt
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    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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    Mark Twain
    “Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: insane, insanity
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Charles Bukowski
    “For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: atheism, religion
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    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
    tags: books
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    John Lennon
    “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: honesty-friendship-truth, importance-of-communication, important-things-in-life
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: confidence, inspirational, pride
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: expression, humor, irony, quoting, truth
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: greatness
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism
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    Walt Whitman
    “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
    You must travel it by yourself.
    It is not far. It is within reach.
    Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
    Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: autonomy, journey, self-reliance
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self Reliance
    tags: self-reliance
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    Thomas Paine
    “Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
    ― thomas paine, Rights of Man
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.”
    ― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child
    tags: doctrine, equal-rights, freedom, liberty, morality, rights
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    Thomas Paine
    “The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
    ― Thomas Paine
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
    own.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis
    tags: education, learning, teaching
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