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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78525 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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  • #10
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
    27351 likes

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  • #13
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books
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  • #16
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
    21008 likes

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  • #17
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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  • #18
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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    Lemony Snicket
    “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
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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
    13080 likes

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  • #21
    Mother Teresa
    “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: compassion, connecting, humanity, inspirational, love, sharing
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    William Shakespeare
    “Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: love, romeo-and-juliet, values, waste
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  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    2469 likes

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  • #24
    John Banville
    “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
    ― John Banville, The Sea
    tags: memories, past
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  • #25
    Albert Einstein
    “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #26
    Jennifer Niven
    “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
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  • #27
    Hayley Williams
    “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
    ― Hayley Williams
    tags: falling, knowing, lesson-on-living, life, paramore, singer, stand, success, truth, understanding
    2477 likes

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  • #28
    Albert Einstein
    “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: force, peace
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  • #29
    “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
    ― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein
    tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words
    2474 likes

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  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
    2760 likes



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