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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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    “i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.”
    ― Bill Hirst
    tags: francis-bacon, monkeys, shakespeare, typewriters
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: editor, writing
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    Desmond Morris
    “Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.”
    ― Desmond Morris
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    “I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.”
    ― David Gerrold, A Matter for Men
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    David Sedaris
    “At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”
    ― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
    tags: humor, technology, typewriters
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    Warren Buffett
    “I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: fear, greed, rich, wall-street
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    W.H. Auden
    “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
    ― W. H. Auden
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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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    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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    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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #13
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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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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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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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
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
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    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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