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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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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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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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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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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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    Emma Goldman
    “If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: anarchy, music, revolution
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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
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    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
    177249 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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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
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    “The artist must forget the audience,
    forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music.
    Then, the music speaks through the performance,
    and the performer and the listener will walk together
    with the soul of the composer, and with
    God.”
    ― Mstislav Rostropovich
    tags: music
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    Dmitri Shostakovich
    “When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.”
    ― Dmitri Shostakovich
    tags: despair, music
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    Igor Stravinsky
    “I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
    ― Igor Stravinsky
    tags: music, stravinsky
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    Itzhak Perlman
    “Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.”
    ― Itzhak Perlman
    tags: inspirational-music
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    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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    Leonard Bernstein
    “Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
    ― Leonard Bernstein
    tags: music
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    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
    tags: music, philosophy, revelation, wisdom
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    George Eliot
    “It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: music, poetry
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  • #27
    “I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.”
    ― Mstislav Rostropovich
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    “Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.”
    ― Mstislav Rostropovich
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    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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  • #31
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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