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#1

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

#2

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

6203 likes

#3

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

2115 likes

#4

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: conversation, depression, fear, life, speaking, words

1563 likes

#5

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

13156 likes

#6

“The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

1027 likes

#7

“Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
― Emily Murphy

1248 likes

#8

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

2660 likes

#9

“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

1332 likes

#10

“Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

810 likes

#11

“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

148392 likes

#12

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177065 likes

#13

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119059 likes

#14

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135508 likes

#15

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

114362 likes

#16

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109285 likes

#17

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88099 likes

#18

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92182 likes

#19

“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

89097 likes

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