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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Kate Chopin
    “Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
    ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories
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    Arthur Miller
    “Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
    ― Arthur Miller
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: beauty, power
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    Albert Einstein
    “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adulthood, success, value
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: cynic
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Studs Terkel
    “I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.”
    ― Studs Terkel
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Tennessee Williams
    “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
    tags: distance, time
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    Richard Wilbur
    “What is the opposite of two?
    A lonely me, a lonely you.”
    ― Richard Wilbur, Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences
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    Stephen King
    “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
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    Jodi Picoult
    “It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
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    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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    George Orwell
    “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    Confucius
    “The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
    the man of benevolence never worries;
    the man of courage is never afraid.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: wisdom
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
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    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    tags: protection, silence, speech
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    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
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    Terry McMillan
    “Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
    ― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts
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    “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
    ― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
    tags: desk, viewpoint
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  • #30
    Kay Ryan
    “The day misspent,
    the love misplaced,
    has inside it
    the seed of redemption.
    Nothing is exempt
    from resurrection.”
    ― Kay Ryan, Say Uncle
    tags: redemption
    926 likes



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