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#1

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#2

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― Elinor Glyn

tags: inspiration, love, romance

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#3

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness

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#4

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

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#5

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally

tags: brains, marriage

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#6

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#7

“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”
― Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

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#8

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

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#9

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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#10

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

tags: inspirational

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#11

“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth

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#12

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

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#13

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

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#14

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

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#15

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

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#16

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

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#17

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#18

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

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#19

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

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#20

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

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#21

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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#22

“There ain't no answer.
There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
There's your answer.”
― Gertrude Stein

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#23

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

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#24

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

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#25

“and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
― E.E. Cummings

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#26

“It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.”
― Tess Gallagher

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#27

“Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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#28

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”
― Danielle Steel, Happy Birthday

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#29

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

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#30

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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