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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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    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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    Karen Marie Moning
    “When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.”
    ― Karen Marie Moning
    tags: darkfever, karen-marie-moning
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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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
    128885 likes

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    A.A. Milne
    “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
    ― A.A. Milne
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    W.B. Yeats
    “I have spread my dreams under your feet.
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
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    Victoria Aveyard
    “The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
    ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
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    Ian McEwan
    “A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
    tags: vulnerability
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    Sheng Wang
    “A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
    ― Sheng Wang
    tags: feminism, humor, misattributed-betty-white
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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  • #14
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: attributed-no-source, courage
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: storytelling
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    tags: brain, mind
    3734 likes

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    Ivan Turgenev
    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev
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    Anne Enright
    “People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
    ― Anne Enright, The Gathering
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    Noël Coward
    “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
    ― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit
    tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8
    3586 likes

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    Harvey Pekar
    “Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
    ― Harvey Pekar
    tags: life, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: food, love
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    Susan Cain
    “Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.”
    ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    tags: introversion, psychology, sociology
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    Criss Jami
    “Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: funny, funny-but-true, hell, humor, introversion, introvert, introverts, parties, party, partying, people, saints, social, socializing
    705 likes

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  • #25
    “I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.”
    ― Laurie Helgoe, Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
    tags: introversion
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    Susan Cain
    “We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.”
    ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    tags: introversion, listening, talking
    360 likes

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    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    ― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
    tags: optimism, pessimism
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    William Goldman
    “We’ll never survive!”
    “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: doubt, humor, optimism, survival
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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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    C.S. Pacat
    “There is little sense in pitting a lesser sense of duty against a greater one. No leader could expect loyalty to hold under those circumstances.”
    ― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two
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