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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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    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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    Mae West
    “I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, temptation
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    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: women
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    Mae West
    “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
    ― Mae West
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    Mae West
    “When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”
    ― Mae West
    tags: goodness, sexuality, virtue
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    Mae West
    “I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
    ― Mae West
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    Mae West
    “Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.”
    ― Mae West
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    Mae West
    “Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: complacency, morality, surprise
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    Mae West
    “Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: funny
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    Mae West
    “Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
    ― Mae West, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
    tags: bachelorhood, double-entendre, empowerment, freedom, independence, institutions, marriage, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, singles
    1334 likes

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    Mae West
    “It is better to be looked over than overlooked.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: independent, strong-women, tough-lady
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    Mae West
    “Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
    ― Mae West
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    Mae West
    “If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!”
    ― Mae West
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    Mae West
    “You are never too old to become younger!”
    ― Mae West
    tags: maturity, paradox, poetry, story, story-telling, youthfulness
    556 likes

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    Mae West
    “I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: inspirational, religious
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    Mae West
    “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: chivalry, men, protection, relationships, women
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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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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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    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
    42897 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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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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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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