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#1

“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

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#2

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#3

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
― Aldous Huxley

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#4

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

tags: change

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#5

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

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#6

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

tags: living

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#7

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

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#8

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

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#9

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

tags: education, soul

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#10

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#11

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

tags: katharine-hepburn

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#12

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

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#13

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder

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#14

“Cherish your wilderness.”
― Maxine Kumin

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#15

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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#16

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

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#17

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

tags: writing

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#18

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

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#19

“Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.”
― Charles Schultz

tags: education, humor

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#20

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: education

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#21

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: change, education

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#22

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#23

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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#24

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: words

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#25

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

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#26

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

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#27

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

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#28

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

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#29

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

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#30

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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