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    Nora Roberts
    “Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you”
    ― Nora Roberts, Black Hills
    tags: love, romance
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • #6
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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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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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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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
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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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    Cornelia Funke
    “Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: fear, heart, imagination, mind
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    Malcolm X
    “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: education, future
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    Malcolm X
    “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: activism, truth
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    Malcolm X
    “If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: crime
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    Malcolm X
    “The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: books, literature, living, reading, words
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    Malcolm X
    “I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: failure, fear, middle-age, perseverance
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    Malcolm X
    “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
    ― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
    tags: assertiveness, malcolm-x, willpower
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    Malcolm X
    “I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: argument, mathematics, schooling
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    Diane Wolkstein
    “Oh God, let me not be cured of love, but let my passion grow! Let me love for love's sake!”
    ― Diane Wolkstein
    tags: cure, love, passion
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    Tennessee Williams
    “When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
    tags: loneliness, paradox
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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it”
    ― Alexandre Dumas
    tags: children, education, humor, innate-wisdom
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  • #30
    بسمة العوفي
    “لو عندك حلم عايز تخلص منه.. حققه!”
    ― بسمة العوفي
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