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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: spirituality
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    John Quincy Adams
    “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
    ― John Quincy Adams
    tags: bravery, courage, inspirational, perseverance, trial
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    George Orwell
    “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: intellectualism
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “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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    Marcus Porcius Cato
    “He who hesitates is lost.”
    ― Cato
    tags: philosophy-of-life
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    Simone Weil
    “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
    ― Simone Weil
    tags: ethics, evil, good, morality, reality
    755 likes

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    Robert Barron
    “We live in a culture that permits everything and yet forgives nothing.”
    ― Bishop Barron
    tags: forgiveness, god, grace, secularism
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    Margaret Thatcher
    “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: entitlement, government
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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not yet!”
    ― Augustine of Hippo
    tags: augustine, chastity, continence, humor, virtue, virtues
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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
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: love
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: love
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: twenty, understanding-others
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    Thomas Sowell
    “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
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  • #17
    Ronald Reagan
    “I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: abortion, obvious, right-to-life
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: american-presidents, freedom, slavery, wisdom
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “If only you do not try to utter what is unutterable then nothing gets lost. But the unutterable will be—unutterably—contained in what has been uttered”
    ― Wittgenstein Ludwig
    tags: isness, one-and-all, truth
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “You may delay, but time will not.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: procrastination, time, time-quotes
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: brave, inspirational
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    Bill Watterson
    “You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
    What mood is that?
    Last-minute panic.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: procrastination
    2140 likes

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  • #23
    “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
    ― George Addair
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  • #24
    Sun Tzu
    “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: strategy
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: afterlife, atheism, humanism, secularism
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    Samuel Butler
    “I should like to like Schumann’s music better than I do; I dare say I could make myself like it better if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all.”
    ― Samuel Butler
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    Mark Twain
    “There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: darkness, human-nature, moon
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  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”
    ― Albert Einstein
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