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    Aristotle
    “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: work
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: courage, determination, hope, risk
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    Joni Eareckson Tada
    “Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
    ― Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love
    tags: faith, god, inspirational, love
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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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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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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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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    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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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: happiness, human-nature, humanity, perfection, time
    1197 likes

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    Rick Warren
    “You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”
    ― Rick Warren
    tags: faith, life, religion
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    Martin Luther
    “We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: christianity, faith, inspirational, religion
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    “The first men to be created and formed were called the Sorcerer of Fatal Laughter, the Sorcerer of Night, Unkempt, and the Black Sorcerer … They were endowed with intelligence, they succeeded in knowing all that there is in the world. When they looked, instantly they saw all that is around them, and they contemplated in turn the arc of heaven and the round face of the earth … [Then the Creator said]: 'They know all … what shall we do with them now? Let their sight reach only to that which is near; let them see only a little of the face of the earth!… Are they not by nature simple creatures of our making? Must they also be gods?”
    ― Anonymous, Popol Vuh
    tags: creation, creation-myth, earth, gods, heaven, intelligence, knowledge, sight
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Alexander Pope
    “If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: misattributed-to-alexander-pope, misattributed-to-dorothy-parker
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    Oliver Goldsmith
    “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
    ― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
    tags: misattributed-to-confucius, success
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    Ayn Rand
    “America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: businessmen, capitalism, money, philosophy, profit
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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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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Life is a journey, not a destination.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: belief, experience, faith, judging-from-experience, religion, unseen
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: originality
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Hitch your wagon to a star.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Zig Ziglar
    “There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.”
    ― Zig Ziglar
    tags: inspirational
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    Zig Ziglar
    “Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.”
    ― zig ziglar
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4082 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
    1832 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
    (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Let us cultivate our garden.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Thomas Merton
    “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
    ― Thomas Merton, Love and Living
    tags: connection, destiny, fate, life, love, meaning
    1152 likes



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