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    J.K. Rowling
    “Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: girls, revenge
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: anger, azkaban, harry-potter, justice, murder, revenge, sirius-black, wormtail
    1714 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: revenge
    2087 likes

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    Anne Lamott
    “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
    tags: forgiveness, grudges, revenge, spite
    716 likes

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    Jodi Picoult
    “When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
    tags: chinese-proverb, revenge
    489 likes

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  • #6
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
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  • #7
    Hayley Williams
    “LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!”
    ― Hayley Williams
    tags: begin, flames, game, hayley, hayley-williams, hurt, let, let-the-flames-begin, paramore, revenge, vengeance
    177 likes

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  • #8
    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
    23151 likes

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  • #9
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #10
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
    13892 likes

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  • #11
    “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
    ― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
    tags: dreams, music
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  • #12
    J.K. Rowling
    “Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dumbledore, magic, music, power-of-music
    3095 likes

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  • #13
    Leonard Bernstein
    “Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
    ― Leonard Bernstein
    tags: music
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  • #14
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Songs are as sad as the listener.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: music, perception
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  • #15
    “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide.”
    ― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
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  • #16
    Johnny Depp
    “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”
    ― Johnny Depp
    tags: music, power-of-music
    1555 likes

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  • #17
    Tom Waits
    “I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
    ― Tom Waits
    tags: music, power-of-music
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  • #18
    Bono
    “Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.”
    ― Bono, On the Move: A Speech
    tags: music
    535 likes

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  • #19
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
    77747 likes

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  • #20
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
    23866 likes

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  • #21
    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
    tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words
    20038 likes

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  • #22
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
    15490 likes

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  • #23
    Jimi Hendrix
    “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: wisdom
    3623 likes

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  • #24
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127111 likes

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  • #25
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lotr, war
    4513 likes

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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
    3313 likes

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  • #28
    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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  • #29
    John Steinbeck
    “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: conflict, politics, war
    2070 likes

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  • #30
    “War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: misattributed-bernard-shaw, misattributed-bertrand-russell, war
    1547 likes



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