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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: inspirational, women
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: friendship, gatsby
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    Harper Lee
    “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: atticus-finch, courage
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    Harper Lee
    “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: writing-advice
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    Charles Dickens
    “Please, sir, I want some more.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
    tags: charles-dickens, oliver-twist
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    “The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”
    ― Edward J. Stieglitz
    tags: inspirational
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, books
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    ― Robert Ingersoll
    tags: adversity, character, power
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abraham-lincoln, religion
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: desperation, misattributed, tenacity
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: belief
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: fanaticism, zealot
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
    ― Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
    tags: causation, fact, relief, results, sea, theory
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
    — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)

    "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
    — Churchill's response”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: books, children
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, BBC Radio presents Man and superman
    tags: food, gluttony, love
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: desire, life, lost, paradox, tragedy
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: humor, religion
    442 likes



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