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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: choices, choose, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hope, inspirational
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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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
    11393 likes

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    John Lennon
    “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
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  • #9
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    George Carlin
    “Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
    ― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
    tags: crazy, men, stupid, truth, women
    7638 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: books, truth
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    George Washington
    “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: confession, excuses, honesty, lies, lying, truth
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    Hayley Williams
    “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
    ― Hayley Williams
    tags: falling, knowing, lesson-on-living, life, paramore, singer, stand, success, truth, understanding
    2475 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: mark-twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: conflict, mark-twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as "exceeding sore," "and it came to pass," etc., and made things satisfactory again. "And it came to pass" was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been only a pamphlet.”
    ― Mark Twain, Roughing It
    tags: bible, humor, mark-twain, scripture
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    Charles Darwin
    “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
    tags: dare, inspirational, life, science, time, value, waste
    2892 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abraham-lincoln, life, politics, religion, science
    1401 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “God does not play dice with the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein, The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55
    tags: quantum-physics, science
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  • #20
    “Never be afraid to try something new. Remember professionals built the Titanic but an amateur built the ark.”
    ― Father Brown
    tags: father-brown, g-k-chesterton, titantic, unknown-quote
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
    tags: books, charles-dickens, g-k-chesterton, victorian
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    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
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  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems
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  • #24
    Isaac Newton
    “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”
    ― Isaac Newton
    tags: id, intelligent-design, religion, religion-and-science, science, science-and-religion
    313 likes

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  • #25
    Albert Einstein
    “We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #26
    Helen Keller
    “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
    ― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
    tags: joy, meekness
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  • #27
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    “Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”
    ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    tags: god, joy
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
    ― Tagore
    tags: joy, service
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  • #29
    W.B. Yeats
    “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    tags: irish, irish-writer, joy, tragedy, william-butler-yeats
    570 likes

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  • #30
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: joy, sorrow
    228 likes



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