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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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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
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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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
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    Simon Van Booy
    “[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.”
    ― Simon Van Booy
    tags: bibliophiles, book, book-lovers, books, reading, reading-books
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “People are more than just the way they look.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
    tags: beauty, people
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
    tags: inspiration, life
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light
    tags: moral
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: understanding
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
    tags: wisdom
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.”
    ― Madeline L'Engle
    tags: hate
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Like and equal are not the same thing at all.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
    tags: science
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Only a fool is not afraid.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: death
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
    tags: knowledge
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door
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