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    Anna Sewell
    “There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and put down for what they”
    ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
    tags: animals, anna, anna-sewell, black-beauty, kindness, love, quote, religion, sewell
    238 likes

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    D.B. Patterson
    “Spread the happy, not the cranky.”
    ― D. Byron Patterson
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    Elvis Presley
    “When things go wrong, don't go with them.”
    ― Elvis Presley
    tags: giving-up, hopelessness, life, perseverance, positivity
    889 likes

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  • #4
    Lewis Carroll
    “If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
    ― Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, carroll
    2469 likes

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  • #5
    Orville Wright
    “If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.”
    ― Orville Wright
    20 likes

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  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-children
    1104 likes

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  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
    25169 likes

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  • #8
    Coco Chanel
    “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    1915 likes

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  • #9
    John Muir
    “Going to the mountains is going home.”
    ― John Muir
    333 likes

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  • #10
    George Bernard Shaw
    “We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    255 likes

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  • #11
    John Henry Newman
    “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”
    ― John Henry Newman
    tags: god, inspirational, love
    2361 likes

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  • #12
    Johnny Cash
    “There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.”
    ― Johnny Cash
    218 likes

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  • #13
    Jack Kerouac
    “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    5614 likes

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  • #14
    Brian Andreas
    “You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.”
    ― Brian Andreas
    tags: story-people
    454 likes

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  • #15
    Amy Sedaris
    “My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.”
    ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    tags: advice, life, mothers
    99 likes

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  • #16
    “No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”
    ― Florida Scott-Maxwell
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  • #17
    Timothy Leary
    “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
    ― Timothy Leary
    tags: ambition, equality
    5112 likes

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  • #18
    Benjamin Franklin
    “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: willful-ignorance
    1425 likes

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  • #19
    “Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.”
    ― James Taylor
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  • #20
    “I don't work at being ordinary.”
    ― Paul McCartney
    tags: ordinariness
    84 likes

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  • #21
    “But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.”
    ― Bill Simmons, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
    tags: basketball
    19 likes

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  • #22
    Elizabeth Taylor
    “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
    ― Elizabeth Taylor
    tags: indulgence, virtue
    1905 likes

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  • #23
    Elizabeth Taylor
    “Big girls need big diamonds.”
    ― Elizabeth Taylor
    tags: diamonds, jewelry
    153 likes

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  • #24
    Oswald Chambers
    “Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.”
    ― Oswald Chambers
    134 likes

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  • #25
    Tom Bissell
    “Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.”
    ― Tom Bissell
    tags: reading, self
    44 likes

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  • #26
    Anne Lamott
    “You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
    tags: honesty, kindness
    228 likes

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    Adam Lindsay Gordon
    “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
    Two things stand like stone.
    Kindness in another's trouble,
    Courage in your own.”
    ― Adam Lindsay Gordon
    tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer
    1962 likes

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  • #28
    Desmond Tutu
    “We learn from history that we don't learn from history!”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: desmond-tutu, history, south-africa
    153 likes

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  • #29
    Erma Bombeck
    “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
    ― Erma Bombeck
    tags: bravery, courage, dreams, openness, self-disclosure, sharing
    893 likes

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  • #30
    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
    ― Mary Anne Radmacher
    tags: courage, perseverance, tenacity
    1606 likes



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