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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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    Jane Goodall
    “The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
    ― Jane Goodall
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    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
    5436 likes

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    E.M. Forster
    “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
    ― E.M. Forster
    tags: education, educational, inspirational, inspiring, learning, mentoring
    1852 likes

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    Hubert H. Humphrey
    “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
    ― Hubert H. Humphrey
    tags: friendship
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    Kshitij Patukale
    “Life is Continuous learning process!”
    ― Kshitij Patukale
    tags: life
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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
    177399 likes

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    Emma Donoghue
    “Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
    ― Emma Donoghue, Room
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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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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    Evelyn Waugh
    “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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    Colleen Hoover
    “Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, Slammed
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    Vandana Shiva
    “You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
    ― Vandana Shiva
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: love, obsession, sleep
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, fire, star, universe
    4491 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
    4058 likes

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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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    Connie Willis
    “That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
    ― Connie Willis, Passage
    tags: death, life, literature, messages
    1566 likes

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    Michel Onfray
    “You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
    ― Michel Onfray
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    Randy Pausch
    “Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted .”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: aim, choice, goal
    902 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: joy
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    Gertrude Stein
    “One must dare to be happy. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
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    “football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
    ― vince lombardi
    tags: discipline, football, sports
    109 likes

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  • #27
    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: inspirational
    3684 likes

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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Art is not a mirror held up to reality
    but a hammer with which to shape it.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
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    Umberto Eco
    “To survive, you must tell stories.”
    ― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before
    tags: stories-writing
    2506 likes

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    Natalie Angier
    “We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
    ― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
    1432 likes



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