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    Spencer Johnson
    “If you do not change, you can become extinct !”
    ― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
    tags: self-improvement
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: inspiration
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    Aristotle
    “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: education
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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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    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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals
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    Pablo Picasso
    “All art is erotic.”
    ― Picasso
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer and other stories
    tags: despair, suicide
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “A book is a suicide postponed.”
    ― Cioran
    tags: suicide, writing
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    Bill Ayers
    “You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”
    ― Bill Ayers
    tags: inspirational, life
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The man who kills a man kills a man.
    The man who kills himself kills all men.
    As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
    tags: death, suicide
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    Emilie Autumn
    “It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?”
    ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
    tags: depression, honor, mental, suicide, war
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    “Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live”
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    tags: death, life, live, suicide
    121 likes

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    Courtney Love
    “The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.”
    ― Courtney Love, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
    tags: death, language, love, suicide
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
    ― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
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    Orson Scott Card
    “In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
    What is it then?'
    It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
    tags: shame, suicide
    334 likes

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    Gore Vidal
    “Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. ”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: body, doctrine, ethics, law, morality, principles, religion, soul, steadfastness, temptation
    845 likes

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    Bill Maher
    “Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!”
    ― Bill Maher
    tags: suicide
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    Nick Hornby
    “I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.”
    ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
    tags: characterization, dark-humor, fiction, personal-insight, rob-gordon
    406 likes

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    Heath L. Buckmaster
    “Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
    ― Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale
    1267 likes

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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art, self-mastery
    842 likes

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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
    ― Mary Shelley
    tags: inspirational
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Thomas More
    “For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
    ― Sir Thomas More, Utopia
    tags: education, manners, politics, punishment, scapegoats, thieves
    1015 likes

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    Bram Stoker
    “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
    ― Bram Stoker
    tags: dracula
    2413 likes

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    Bram Stoker
    “Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: jonathan-harker, van-helsing
    213 likes

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    Stephen Colbert
    “All Dogs Go To Heaven? Sorry, kids. It's only the dogs who've accepted Christ.”
    ― Stephen Colbert, I Am America
    tags: humor, truth
    194 likes

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    Stephen Colbert
    “Baby carrots are making me gay.”
    ― Stephen Colbert, I Am America
    105 likes



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