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    Dorothy Parker
    “Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: dorothy-parker, heterosexuality, homosexuality, humor, wit
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    Robertson Davies
    “I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.”
    ― Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels
    tags: bastard, personality
    112 likes

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    David Amerland
    “Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.”
    ― David Amerland, The Social Media Mind: How social media how social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order.
    tags: social-media, social-media-addiction, social-media-qualities, social-network-tropes
    20 likes

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    Elizabeth Coatsworth
    “November comes
    And November goes,
    With the last red berries
    And the first white snows.

    With night coming early,
    And dawn coming late,
    And ice in the bucket
    And frost by the gate.

    The fires burn
    And the kettles sing,
    And earth sinks to rest
    Until next spring.”
    ― Elizabeth Coatsworth
    232 likes

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    Carl Reiner
    “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
    ― Carl Reiner
    tags: cold, freezing, snow, weather, winter
    257 likes

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    Victor Hugo
    “Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: stone-hearted, winter
    26 likes

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    Edward de Bono
    “The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.”
    ― Edward De Bono
    tags: acceptance-of-oneself, confidence, ego, perception, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-image, self-perception
    55 likes

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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128885 likes

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    David Housholder
    “If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter.”
    ― David Housholder, The Blackberry Bush
    tags: easter, fiction, historical-fiction, young-adult
    27 likes

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    Edward R. Murrow
    “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.”
    ― Edward R. Murrow
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  • #11
    “A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.”
    ― Jackie Robinson
    tags: influence, life, significance
    27 likes

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  • #12
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    142 likes

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    Michael P. Naughton
    “Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur.”
    ― Michael P. Naughton, Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse
    tags: egotism, narcissism, social-media, vanity
    8 likes

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    W.H. Auden
    “Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

    "After all," sighed Narcissus the hunchback, "on me it looks good.

    The contemplation of his reflection does not turn Narcissus into Priapus: the spell in which he is trapped is not a desire for himself but the satisfaction of not desiring the nymphs.

    "I prefer my pistol to my p…," said Narcissus; "it cannot take aim without my permission" – and took a pot shot at Echo.”
    ― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
    tags: narcissism
    26 likes

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    W.H. Auden
    “Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.”
    ― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
    tags: mirror, self, shadow
    124 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: empathy, fiction
    73 likes

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    Marcel Proust
    “When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.”
    ― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive
    tags: ancestors, past, relatives, souls
    8 likes

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  • #18
    Pablo Picasso
    “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art-quotes, dust, purpose, souls
    70 likes

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    L.F. Young
    “How many great gems were lost to thought
    and not put down to pen.
    You can but think of just a few
    and then they're lost again.”
    ― L.F. Young
    tags: humor, memory-loss, poem, writing, writing-craft
    6 likes

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  • #20
    Aldous Huxley
    “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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  • #21
    Marlon Brando
    “Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.”
    ― Marlon Brando
    tags: privacy, solitutde
    79 likes

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    George Clooney
    “I don’t like to share my personal life… it wouldn’t be personal if I shared it.”
    ― George Clooney
    tags: celebrity, paparazzi, personal-life, privacy, sharing
    82 likes

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  • #23
    Christian Parenti
    “You already have zero privacy. Get over it! --Scott McNealy CEO Sun Microsystems 1999”
    ― Christian Parenti, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror
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  • #24
    Gore Vidal
    “Eventually all things are known. And few matter.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Burr
    tags: life, politics, privacy
    22 likes

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  • #25
    Eric Hoffer
    “You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
    69 likes

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  • #26
    “As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will be limited.”
    ― Elisha Gray
    tags: alexander-bell, alexander-graham-bell, beauty, bell, interest, invention, prediction, science, scientific, telephone, toy, value
    3 likes

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  • #27
    “The future is like a corridor into which we can see only by the light coming from behind.”
    ― Edward Weyer, Jr.
    tags: future, light, prediction
    8 likes

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  • #28
    P.J. O'Rourke
    “Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
    ― P.J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World
    tags: altruism, dishes, earth, help, mom, save
    210 likes

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  • #29
    “Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.”
    ― Tony Dovale - ReThink Your Success Mindset tonydovalespeaks.com
    tags: attitudes, beyond-change-management, entrepreneurs, happiness, innovation, mindset, psycap, resilience, success
    21 likes

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    Steve Maraboli
    “Stop telling me not to burn bridges. Some bridges are meant to be burnt, some roads are never meant to be traveled again.”
    ― Steve Maraboli
    tags: bridges, burnt, life, roads, traveled
    6 likes



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