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    Bryant McGill
    “A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.”
    ― Bryant McGill
    tags: argument, conflict, convictions, kindness, meanness
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hope, inspirational
    5699 likes

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    Jimi Hendrix
    “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: love, misattributed, peace, william-gladstone
    4598 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Hearts united in pain and sorrow
    will not be separated by joy and happiness.
    Bonds that are woven in sadness
    are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.
    Love that is washed by tears
    will remain eternally pure and faithful.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran
    1084 likes

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  • #6
    Sophocles
    “One word
    Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
    That word is love.”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: love, pain
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
    ― Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
    tags: forgiveness, hatred
    355 likes

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  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
    31241 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
    9132 likes

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  • #10
    Jesse Ventura
    “I love my country, not my government.”
    ― Jesse Ventura
    tags: allegiance, bill-of-rights, constitution, despotism, freedom, government, jesse-ventura, libertarianism, liberty, martial-law, nationalism, patriot, patriotic, patriotism, police-state, ron-paul, totalitarianism
    229 likes

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  • #11
    John Muir
    “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
    ― John Muir
    411 likes

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    John Muir
    “Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”
    ― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
    tags: nature
    202 likes

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    J. Krishnamurti
    “I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ... The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.”
    ― J. Krishnamurti
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression
    1433 likes

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    Gustave Flaubert
    “You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: on-writing, self-expression
    151 likes

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    Ben Michaelis
    “If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.”
    ― Ben Michaelis
    tags: criticism, originality, self-esteem, self-expression
    17 likes

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  • #17
    William Blake
    “A truth that's told with bad intent
    Beats all the lies you can invent.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth
    3771 likes

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  • #18
    “I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true”
    ― Lady Gaga
    tags: disinformation, lie, lies, music, truth
    363 likes

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    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
    ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    tags: censorship, lies, lying, silence, truth
    1285 likes

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    André Malraux
    “Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
    ― André Malraux
    tags: deception, hiding, lies, man, secrets, self-awareness
    1166 likes

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  • #21
    Ambrose Bierce
    “The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    tags: bluffing, lies
    58 likes

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  • #23
    Lord Byron
    “Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: laughter, medicine
    1475 likes

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  • #24
    Lord Byron
    “Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
    ― Lord George Gordon Byron
    472 likes

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    Lord Byron
    “Adversity is the first path to truth.”
    ― Lord Byron
    178 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31523 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, self-determination
    5079 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspirational
    2494 likes

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  • #29
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
    11454 likes

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  • #30
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
    13397 likes

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    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
    6601 likes

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
    tags: blame, conduct-of-life, double-standards, hypocrisy, morality, social-norms
    178 likes



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