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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
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  • #10
    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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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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  • #12
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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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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    Renee Vincent
    “I would like to believe there is more to this cursed life than just an honorable death.” “Like what?” Vegard said disdainfully. “Like peace.” “Peace? Peace you say? Dægan, you will spend a lifetime looking for peace! Where there is man, there is war. ‘Tis been that way since the dawn of time.”
    ― Renee Vincent, The Emerald Isle Trilogy Boxed Set
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    Ellie Keaton
    “This is war, ladies and gentlemen, so the first thing you do is forget about behaving 'properly'. We are not interested in winning a fight fairly, we just want to win.”
    ― Ellie Keaton, Penny
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    Ellie Keaton
    “No, Leon. I think you will find that the 'young ladies' may make an interesting adversary. Mr Churchill certainly thinks so. They may look pretty or decorative but in our experience, the combination of brains with beauty has proved quite lethal to more than one German officer. Women make good agents as they tend to attract”
    ― Ellie Keaton, Penny
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    Ellie Keaton
    “No, Leon. I think you will find that the 'young ladies' may make an interesting adversary. Mr Churchill certainly thinks so. They may look pretty or decorative but in our experience, the combination of brains with beauty has proved quite lethal to more than one German officer.”
    ― Ellie Keaton, Penny
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    Abhijit Naskar
    “Every nation has nuts, just like every nation has heroes. The problem is, we wish someone else to be the hero, so that our sleep is undisturbed!”
    ― Abhijit Naskar, Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel
    tags: activist, complacency, heroes, indifference, nation-building, nationalist-fundamentalism, political-science, revolution, social-responsibility, social-studies
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    Abhijit Naskar
    “A nation falls not because of governmental atrocity, but because of the citizens' indifference to that atrocity.”
    ― Abhijit Naskar, Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
    tags: citizens, government, indifference, nation-building, political-philosophy, political-science, progress, social-responsibility, society, speak-up
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    Abhijit Naskar
    “A nation's worth lies not in the value of its currency, but in the character of its people.”
    ― Abhijit Naskar
    tags: brainy-quotes, character-building, citizens, citizens-of-a-great-nation, humanitarian, nation-builder, nation-building, patriotic, patriotic-citizens, patriotism
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    Douglas MacArthur
    “Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.”
    ― Douglas MacArthur
    tags: humor, military
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
    tags: air-force, army, country, marines, military, navy, patriotism, service, soldiers
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: military, soldiers
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    Cherry Adair
    “Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.”
    ― Cherry Adair, Kiss and Tell
    tags: humor, military, romantic-suspense
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    Alexander the Great
    “An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
    ― Alexander the Great
    tags: army, leadership, military, wisdom
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    “The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.”
    ― William Westmoreland
    tags: military, war, westmoreland
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    Shaun Hick
    “A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy.”
    ― Shaun Hick
    tags: barren, crying, defeated, depression, emptiness, empty, enemy, low, lowly, realisation, sadness, silence, suicide
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