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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
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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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  • #3
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
    10857 likes

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  • #4
    Khaled Hosseini
    “it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    2053 likes

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  • #5
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu
    tags: class-struggle, war
    1181 likes

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  • #6
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination
    1670 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
    tags: generosity, pride
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
    tags: beauty, inspirational, truth
    169 likes

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  • #12
    Kahlil Gibran
    “When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
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  • #13
    Douglas Adams
    “I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: happiness, rightness
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  • #14
    Ibn ʿArabi
    “كنت قبل اليوم أنكر صاحبي.....إذا لم يكن دينه إلى ديني داني
    لقد صارقلبي قابلاً كل صورة.....فمرعى لغزلان و دير لرهبان
    أدين بدين الحب أنى توجهت.....ركائبه, فالحب ديني وإيماني”
    ― محيي الدين بن عربي
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: happiness, human-nature, humanity, perfection, time
    1199 likes

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  • #17
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin
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    G. Stanley Hall
    “Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.”
    ― G. Stanley Hall, Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion
    tags: attributed, verifiable
    107 likes

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    Naguib Mahfouz
    “و من عجب ان اهل حارتنا يضحكون, علام يضحكوون ؟ انهم يهتفون للمنتصر ايا كان المنتصر, و يهللون للقوي ايا كان القوي, و يسجدون امام النبابيت يداوون بذلك كله الرعب الكامن في اعماقهم.”
    ― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا
    tags: استبداد, الجبن, الشجاعة, ظلم
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    Naguib Mahfouz
    “الناس يعبدون القوة، حتى ضحاياها!”
    ― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا
    tags: الخوف, القوة
    304 likes

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  • #21
    Naguib Mahfouz
    “الخوف لا يمنع من الموت و لكنه يمنع من الحياة.”
    ― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا
    tags: الخوف
    1706 likes

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    أنيس منصور
    “فَرْقٌ كبير بين أن تحبها لأنها جميلة، وأن تكون جميلة لأنك تحبها.”
    ― أنيس منصور
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    أحمد خالد توفيق
    “نعم.. لم يكن للمصريين مايباع سوى الماضى.. وقد اشتريناه”
    ― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا
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    أحمد خالد توفيق
    “لماذا كان اباطرة روما و عامة الشعب يحبون مشاهدة العبيد يمزقون بعضهم ؟ ..لماذا لم يكسب الفقر الفقراء رحمة ؟”
    ― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا
    tags: العنف, الفقر
    54 likes

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  • #25
    أحمد خالد توفيق
    “ليست الثقافة دينا يوحد بين القلوب ويؤلفها, بل هى على الأرجح تفرقها؛ لأنها تطلع المظلومين على هول الظلم الذى يعانونه, وتطلع المحظوظين على ما يمكن أن يفقدوه”
    ― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا
    240 likes

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  • #26
    أحمد خالد توفيق
    “هذه ادوية لا قيمة لها الا انها رخيصة!.. اي انها تعطيك مزية ان تتعاطى شيئا و لا تنتظر الموت الموت عاجزا”
    ― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا
    tags: الفقر, الموت
    47 likes

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  • #27
    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
    77749 likes

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  • #28
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
    13704 likes

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  • #29
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ
    6227 likes

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  • #30
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
    5693 likes



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