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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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    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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    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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    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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    Cornelia Funke
    “Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: inspirational
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: inkheart
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran
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    William Shakespeare
    “Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
    SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
    GREGORY [Aside to Sampson]: No.
    SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: insult
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    Cecelia Ahern
    “Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.”
    ― Cecilia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
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    “Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, My Point... And I Do Have One
    tags: lyrics, music, singing, wrong-lyrics
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: beauty, music, sadness
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Songs are as sad as the listener.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: music, perception
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  • #16
    “I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.”
    ― Harvey Milk, The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words
    tags: activist, gay, inspirational
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  • #17
    “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”
    ― Harvey Milk
    tags: civil-rights, gay, inspirational, lgbt
    392 likes

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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
    tags: happiness, sadness
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: books
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Grandfather informs me that is not possible.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
    tags: humor
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  • #23
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “She is deranged, but so so playful.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Words never mean what we want them to mean.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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  • #27
    “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres
    tags: age, exercise, family, grandmothers, grandparents, humor, walking
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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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Yasalar Üzerine
    tags: commandments, essential, justice, law, reason, society
    593 likes

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  • #30
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Dum Spiro, spero”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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