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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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    Percival Everett
    “Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers don’t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn’t trust art.”
    ― Percival Everett
    tags: bomb-2004
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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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    George Orwell
    “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: intellectualism
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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
    699 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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    Robert Barron
    “You’ll never have another opportunity like this. You should read every day until your eyes hurt.”
    ― Bishop Robert Barron
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    Pope Francis
    “It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.”
    ― Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel
    tags: 214, liberalism, life, philosophy, politics, truth, wisdom, women
    52 likes

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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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  • #13
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not yet!”
    ― Augustine of Hippo
    tags: augustine, chastity, continence
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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
    78297 likes

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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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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
    tags: paraphrase-of-congreve
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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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  • #20
    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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