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    Anton Chekhov
    “There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble."

    (The Mill)”
    ― Anton Chekhov, The Portable Chekhov
    tags: opinions, reticence, trouble
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    Bauvard
    “Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.”
    ― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
    tags: cars, experience, history, teenagers
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    Jodi Picoult
    “I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
    Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: growing-up, parenting, parents
    178 likes

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    David Sedaris
    “Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings”
    ― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
    tags: discretion, tact
    658 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: remaining-silent, speaking, tact
    530 likes

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    Gretchen Rubin
    “Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.”
    ― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project
    tags: hypocrisy, kindness, offensive, politeness, tact
    251 likes

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    Tanith Lee
    “I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.”
    ― Tanith Lee, Wolf Star
    tags: care, friends, relationships, tact
    168 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: agenda, anxiety, bluntness, fear, games, honesty, low-self-esteem, motives, paranoia, politeness, tact
    23 likes

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    Josh Stern
    “Manners without sincerity, is called polite society”
    ― Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
    tags: absurd, brilliant, comedy, funny, genius, humor, inspirational, irreverent-humor, manners, polite, sincerity, society
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    Mike Corbett
    “Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit.”
    ― Mike Corbett
    tags: afterlife, demons, heaven, hell, intelligent-humor, irreverent-humor, politics, religion, satan, satire
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    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
    tags: hope, love
    2389 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion
    tags: change, ideas, inspirational, opinions, priniples, steadfastness
    88 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
    tags: approval, nicole-diver, opinions, relationships, rosemary-hoyt
    132 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.”
    ― Criss Jami
    tags: adversaries, arguing, authority, cherry-picking, envy, haters, leadership, opinions, power, spite
    57 likes

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    Maimonides
    “We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.”
    ― Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed
    tags: custom, habit, ideas, opinions, thought, views
    50 likes



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