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    Harper Lee
    “Had she been able to think, Jean Louise might have prevented events to come by considering the day's occurrences in terms of a recurring story as old as time: the chapter which concerned her began two hundred years ago and was played out in a proud society the bloodiest war and harshest peace in modern history could not destroy, returning, to be played out again on private ground in the twilight of civilization no wars and no peace could save.”
    ― Harper Lee
    tags: race-and-racism-in-america
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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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
    78309 likes

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  • #8
    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
    21131 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
    19427 likes

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  • #17
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    James Patterson
    “Yes!” said Fang, punching the air. “Freaks rule.”
    ― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
    tags: maxride
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  • #19
    “If you pretend
    that LIFE is
    exciting,
    it will be.
    That's
    just how our
    hearts
    work.”
    ― Kay Foley
    tags: inspirational
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  • #20
    “Imagine
    yourself
    filled with
    JOY.
    Now keep
    that thought
    & it will
    COME
    TRUE”
    ― Kay Foley
    tags: inspirational
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    David Hume
    “Stercus accidit.”
    ― David Hume
    tags: empiricism, hume, philosophy, shit-happens
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: good-and-evil, love, truth
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    Robert F. Kennedy
    “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
    ― Robert F. Kennedy
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    Robert F. Kennedy
    “All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”
    ― Robert Kennedy
    tags: difficult-times, inspirational, opportunity
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    Barack Obama
    “America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: inspirational, presidential
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    Molly Ivins
    “I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
    And that no one knows the truth.”
    ― Molly Ivins
    tags: evil, humor, truth
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    “Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.”
    ― Mort Sahl
    tags: humor, politics
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    George Orwell
    “Freedom of the Press,
    if it means anything at all,
    means the freedom
    to criticize and oppose”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: freedom-of-the-press
    82 likes

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    Kingsley Amis
    “If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
    ― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
    tags: annoyance, writing
    1348 likes

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  • #30
    George F. Will
    “Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
    ― George Will
    tags: football, humor
    42 likes



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