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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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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    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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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69634 likes

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    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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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
    40766 likes

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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
    45279 likes

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    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
    33865 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
    37068 likes

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    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
    25785 likes

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    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
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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
    130049 likes

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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
    148257 likes

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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Hippocrates
    “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
    ― Hippocrates
    tags: food, health, medicine
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    Hippocrates
    “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
    ― Hippocrates
    tags: ignorance, knowledge, opinion, science
    345 likes

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    Hippocrates
    “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. ”
    ― Hippocrates
    tags: inspirational, medicine
    286 likes

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    Hippocrates
    “Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.”
    ― Hippocrates
    tags: forecasts, medicine
    176 likes

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    Hippocrates
    “Walking is man's best medicine. ”
    ― Hippocrates
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    Hippocrates
    “As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.”
    ― Hippocrates
    tags: diseases, harm, medicine, science
    186 likes

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    Hippocrates
    “Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.”
    ― Hippocrates
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    Hippocrates
    “Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)”
    ― Hippocrates
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    Hippocrates
    “It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.”
    ― Hippocrates
    130 likes

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    Hippocrates
    “The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”
    ― Hippocrates
    tags: doctors, jobs, learning, life, medicine, profession, working
    133 likes

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  • #30
    Hippocrates
    “That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.”
    ― Hippocrates
    85 likes



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