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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
    43891 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
    22055 likes

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    Gustave Flaubert
    “The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: bibliophile, books, literature, reading
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    Thomas Merton
    “If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
    ― Thomas Merton
    tags: destiny, life, purpose
    785 likes

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    Keith Ablow
    “Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.”
    ― Keith Ablow, Murder Suicide
    tags: purpose
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    Mother Teresa
    “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: compassion, connecting, humanity, inspirational, love, sharing
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    Horace Mann
    “Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
    ― Horace Mann
    tags: greed, volunteerism
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    Jack London
    “A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
    ― Jack London
    tags: charity, dogs, sharing
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: inequality, kindness, money, poverty, progress, wealth
    631 likes

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    Herman Melville
    “Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
    ― Herman Melville
    tags: criticism, poverty
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    Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    “The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”
    ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    tags: conservative, liberal, politics
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    John Lennon
    “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
    ― John Lennon
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    Anne Lamott
    “You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”
    ― Anne Lamott
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    Anne Lamott
    “If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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    Anne Lamott
    “Certainty is missing the point entirely.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
    tags: spiritual
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  • #22
    Anne Lamott
    “Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.”
    ― Anne Lamott
    tags: forgiveness, retribution
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  • #23
    Anne Lamott
    “You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are feeding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.”
    ― Anne Lamott
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92177 likes

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  • #25
    Eckhart Tolle
    “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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    Eckhart Tolle
    “A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle
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    Eckhart Tolle
    “Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
    712 likes

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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
    13925 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
    6888 likes



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