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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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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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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
    tags: inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: challanges
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: death-life-convictions
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: excellence, inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: hitler
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr
    tags: religion, science
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: fear-communication
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better. ”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: belief, experience, faith, judging-from-experience, religion, unseen
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: challenges, children, luxury
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    Albert Einstein
    “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adulthood, success, value
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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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    Timothy J. Keller
    “It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.”
    ― Timothy Keller
    tags: faith
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    C.S. Lewis
    “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, religion
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    Blaise Pascal
    “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: ironic, sad
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: evil, religious-conviction
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Little things comfort us because little things distress us.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées and Other Writings
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    Criss Jami
    “A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: hard-work, hustle, responsibility, sloth, work-ethic
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    Richard Baxter
    “[I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).”
    ― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
    tags: puritanical, salvation, sloth
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    “Time is the pivot of life activities. When you miss a second, you miss a time in your lifetime! Time is undoubtedly the greatest asset one can ever acquire. The ultimate and real time is in the mind. Time is thought and thought is time. To mind your time, mind your thought! To mind your life, mind your time!”
    ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
    tags: ambition-quotes, attitude-quotes, food-for-thought, idleness-quote, life-and-time, lifetime, mind-your-llife, mind-your-time, seconds, time, time-flies, time-management-quotes, time-mangement, time-usage, work-and-attitude
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