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    Barack Obama
    “We are the change we have been waiting for.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: carpe-diem, change
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    Barack Obama
    “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: america, history, hope
    329 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
    3382 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

    [misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: beer, drinking, misquote
    891 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
    6888 likes

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    Rita Mae Brown
    “Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown, Sudden Death
    tags: insanity, misattributed-jane-fulton, paraphrasing-narcotics-anonymous
    212 likes

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    George W. Bush
    “One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
    ― George W. Bush
    476 likes

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    George W. Bush
    “I reads every chance I can gets.”
    ― George W. Bush
    tags: bushism
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    George W. Bush
    “There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”
    ― George W. Bush
    tags: bushism, dumb, foolishness, fools
    486 likes

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    George W. Bush
    “I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong.”
    ― George W. Bush
    tags: dumb
    55 likes

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  • #11
    Naomi Klein
    “People without memory are putty.”
    ― Naomi Klein
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
    42750 likes

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  • #13
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
    21273 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.”
    ― Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    tags: economics, greed
    107 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: inequality, kindness, money, poverty, progress, wealth
    631 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: conservatives
    116 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: capitalism, democracy, fascism
    385 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: economics-money
    26 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: social-justice, usa
    95 likes

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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational, self-acceptance
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    Groucho Marx
    “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: humor, risque
    701 likes

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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: personal-responsibility, self-determination
    817 likes

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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44320 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
    41001 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46488 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114360 likes

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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
    78309 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
    37577 likes

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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60255 likes



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