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    Paul Simon
    “I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
    ― Simon and Garfunkel
    tags: happiness, life
    3696 likes

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    Thomas A. Edison
    “We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: laziness, opportunity, work
    1278 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fun, work
    664 likes

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    Dave Barry
    “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.”
    ― Dave Barry
    tags: business, humor, meetings, work
    539 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    255 likes

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  • #6
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
    36837 likes

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  • #7
    Marilyn Monroe
    “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, love
    20159 likes

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  • #8
    Betty Friedan
    “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
    ― Betty Friedan
    1739 likes

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  • #9
    Melina Marchetta
    “Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.”
    ― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca
    tags: p-166
    459 likes

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  • #10
    Anne Frank
    “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
    ― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness
    3221 likes

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  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
    16216 likes

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  • #12
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
    76507 likes

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    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    “Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
    ― Tchaikovsky
    tags: inspiration, laziness
    271 likes

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  • #14
    Elbert Hubbard
    “Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    98 likes

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  • #15
    Peter F. Drucker
    “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”
    ― Peter Drucker
    tags: ideas, innovation, new, old, project, work
    409 likes

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  • #16
    “Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.”
    ― Dave Ramsey
    tags: hope, prayer, work
    111 likes

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  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177072 likes

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  • #18
    George Carlin
    “The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: butterflies, caterpillars, humor, injustice, work
    637 likes

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  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: money
    733 likes

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  • #20
    Steve Maraboli
    “Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.”
    ― Steve Maraboli
    tags: change-a-life, compassion, inspirational, smile, strangers
    262 likes

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  • #21
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
    33846 likes

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  • #22
    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source
    28135 likes

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    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    ― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne
    11391 likes

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    John Irving
    “Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.”
    ― John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River
    tags: arrogance, driving, drunk, self-importance, sober
    25 likes

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    Habeeb Akande
    “Arrogance is thinking you are above someone else,
    Confidence is knowing no one is above you.”
    ― Habeeb Akande
    tags: arrogance, confidence
    18 likes

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  • #26
    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
    15555 likes

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  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
    2797 likes

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  • #28
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: effort, inspiration
    1320 likes

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  • #29
    Jordan Belfort
    “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”
    ― Jordan Belfort
    tags: excuses, goal, inspiration, motivation, self-defeat
    2257 likes

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  • #30
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Ideas come from everything”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
    tags: ideas, inspiration
    468 likes



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