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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#2

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

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#4

“All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: writing

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#5

“Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: existentialism, humanism, post-modernism

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#6

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― William Durant

tags: knowledge-habit-inspirational

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#7

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

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#8

“Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
― Jon Stewart

tags: absurd, organized-religion, paradox, religion

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#9

“If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.”
― Jon Stewart

tags: media, media-corruption, rally-to-restore-insanity

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#10

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

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#11

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

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#12

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

tags: knowledge

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#13

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: dissent, duty, independent-thought

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#14

“When you are finished changing, you're finished.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: changing-with-lean-six-sigma

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#15

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

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#16

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: happiness

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#17

“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#18

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#19

“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#20

“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: kindness, nation

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#21

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

tags: failure, perseverance

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#22

“A line is a fuse
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky

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#23

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy

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#24

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#25

“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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#26

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#27

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#28

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

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#29

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

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#30

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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