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    John Green
    “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: attraction, beauty, popularity
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: appreciation, contentment, dissatisfaction, life, perception, positivity, thankfulness, thanksgiving
    2736 likes

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    Kate DiCamillo
    “Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
    tags: edward
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Rick Yancey
    “Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: the-5th-wave
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    Patrick Ness
    “To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
    ― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
    tags: choice, cowardice, responsibility
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  • #7
    “There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.”
    ― Joseph Pulitzer
    tags: crime, secrecy, transparency, vice
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  • #8
    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
    177039 likes

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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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Louis Sachar
    “I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”
    ― Louis Sachar
    tags: give-up, holes, life, sachar
    438 likes

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  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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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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    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
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    Anthony Burgess
    “The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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    Anthony Burgess
    “It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”
    ― anthony burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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  • #17
    Ransom Riggs
    “When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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  • #18
    Ransom Riggs
    “We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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    Lorraine Hansberry
    “Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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  • #21
    “A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind”
    ― Robert Bolton (inventor). Ransford
    tags: belief, idea, possess
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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
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  • #23
    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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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    Ransom Riggs
    “...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    tags: childhood, exploration
    511 likes

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    Ransom Riggs
    “Sometimes it's better not to look back.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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  • #29
    Ransom Riggs
    “Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
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    Ransom Riggs
    “But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    tags: monsters, war
    231 likes

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  • #31
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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