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    Comtesse de Ségur
    “Wisdom and prudence are always recompensed.”
    ― Sophie Segur, Old French Fairy Tales
    tags: prudence, reward, wisdom
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    Confucius
    “Study the past if you would define the future.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: direction, future, history, learning, moving-forward, past, strategy
    1466 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “What's past is prologue.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: past
    882 likes

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    Anthony Bourdain
    “Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.”
    ― Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
    tags: alternative-medicine, china, chinese, holistic
    19 likes

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..”
    ― Jean Jacques Rosseau
    tags: holistic
    32 likes

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    Michael Chabon
    “Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.”
    ― Michael Chabon
    tags: dark-humor, futility
    174 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: honesty, justice, secrecy, transparency, truth, truth-telling
    1485 likes

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    Christopher Hitchens
    “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
    tags: critical-thinking, independent-thought, opinions, skepticism, thinking
    868 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: bigotry, fission, fusion
    943 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.”
    ― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
    tags: friends, friendship, privacy
    491 likes

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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: diversity, multiculturalism, propoganda
    198 likes

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    Livy
    “It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with all you love before your eyes: the temples of the gods, your wives and children, the soil of your native land scarred with the ravages of war, and everything which honor and truth call upon you to defend, or recover, or avenge.”
    ― Livy, The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome
    tags: history, political-philosophy, political-science, speeches, war
    17 likes

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    Edmondo de Amicis
    “It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.”
    ― Edmundo de Amicis, Coração
    tags: dream, exhaustion, feeling, laziness, sleep
    7 likes

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    Amy Waldman
    “Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.”
    ― Amy Waldman, The Submission
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “We don't heal in isolation, but in community.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
    tags: community, healing, isolation, ptsd, shamanism, support, trauma
    170 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: community, effort, friendship, happiness, spontaneity
    105 likes

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    “Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck.”
    ― Jonathan Feldman
    54 likes

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    H.C. Paye
    “Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.”
    ― H.C. Paye
    tags: armor, broken-heart, helmets, law, love, risk, safety, sports, violence
    76 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: abuse, addiction, alcohol, alcoholic, aqua, aquaholic, drinking, habits, health, indulgence, intoxicate, obsession, over-indulgence, substance-abuse, water
    199 likes

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    Will Durant
    “Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand
    Unshaken when I fall; that I may know
    The shattered fragments of my song will come
    At last to finer melody in you;
    That I may tell my heart that you begin
    Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.”
    ― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
    tags: dedication, inspirational, wife
    45 likes

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    Tom Clancy
    “Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.”
    ― Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit
    tags: courage, testimony, transparency
    77 likes

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    William O. Douglas
    “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
    ― William O Douglas
    tags: honesty, secrecy, sunlight, transparency, truth
    40 likes

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  • #23
    Anna Godbersen
    “She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.”
    ― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
    tags: villains
    97 likes

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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: banks, debt, deficit-spending, government, loans, political-science, politics
    1021 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92183 likes

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    Veronica Roth
    “Lies require commitment.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: lies
    1125 likes

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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
    19792 likes

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  • #28
    “One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.”
    ― Al David
    tags: liars, lies, lying, power-of-words, truth
    366 likes

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    Megan Crewe
    “For a guy who claimed not to be a stalker he sure knows the tricks of the trade.
    Give up the Ghost”
    ― Megan Crewe, Give Up the Ghost
    36 likes

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    Patti Callahan Henry
    “Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up.”
    ― Patti Callahan Henry, Between The Tides
    tags: cheating, infidelity, lying, relationships, struggles
    1735 likes



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