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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
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    Isabel Allende
    “The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
    ― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts
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    Steve Martin
    “Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, words
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook
    tags: strength, worry
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    The earth has its music for those who will listen
    “The earth has its music for those who will listen”
    ― Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies
    tags: misattributed-george-santayana
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  • #8
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you want to be happy, be.”
    ― Leo Tolstory
    tags: inspirational
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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 not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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  • #11
    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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  • #12
    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
    ― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims
    tags: love
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    Edward W. Said
    “You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
    ― Edward Said
    tags: colonialism, imperialism, israile, palestine, postcolonialism, victim
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    Tennessee Williams
    “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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    J.K. Rowling
    “He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Sukhvinder is easily discouraged and needs to have more faith in her abilities. There! You see? Your teacher is saying you dont try hard enough, Sukhvinder.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
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    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    “Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
    tags: improbability, life
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    Gertrude Stein
    “We are always the same age inside. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: self-confidence
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
    ― Gautama Buddha, The Teaching of Buddha
    tags: dhammapada, paraphrase
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.”
    ― Tennyson
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    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    “Never say more than is necessary.”
    ― Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    tags: essay, history
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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
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  • #25
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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  • #26
    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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  • #27
    Louis Adamic
    “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
    ― Louis Adamic
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  • #28
    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    “Negative thoughts are the first thing that come to mind when we see something wrong. Let us not judge others. We don't know what is going on in their lives. let us think positive, it will be bring us happiness.”
    ― Evelyn Faitz
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  • #30
    Jim Carrey
    “Behind every great man there is a woman rolling her eyes.”
    ― Jim Carey
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