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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    William Shakespeare
    “This story shall the good man teach his son;
    And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
    From this day to the ending of the world,
    But we in it shall be remembered-
    We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
    Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
    This day shall gentle his condition;
    And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
    Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
    That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day”
    ― Shakespeare's Henry V
    tags: henry, shakespeare, speech, st-crispian-day
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  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: birth, born, day, important, life, reasons-why, true
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  • #4
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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  • #5
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: inspirational, soul, spiritual-growth
    3299 likes

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  • #6
    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
    10094 likes

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  • #7
    John Quincy Adams
    “Try and fail,but don't fail to try.”
    ― John Quincy Adams
    tags: inspirational
    62 likes

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  • #8
    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
    177070 likes

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  • #9
    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading
    2712 likes

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  • #10
    Eric Hoffer
    “To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
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  • #11
    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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  • #12
    Benjamin Franklin
    “You may delay, but time will not.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: procrastination, time, time-quotes
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  • #13
    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
    37982 likes

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  • #14
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119055 likes

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  • #15
    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: books, reading, rights
    6986 likes

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  • #16
    Diane Setterfield
    “Reading can be dangerous.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
    tags: margaret-lea, the-thirteenth-tale
    119 likes

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  • #17
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
    8571 likes

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  • #18
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You wander from room to room
    Hunting for the diamond necklace
    That is already around your neck!”
    ― Rumi
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  • #19
    Reece Hirsch
    “I want to stop becoming something & start being something.”
    ― Reece Hirsch, The Insider
    37 likes

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  • #20
    George R.R. Martin
    “All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: inspirational
    2 likes

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  • #21
    T. Geronimo Johnson
    “He blew time like he had it to spare, like it grew on clocks instead of died there.”
    ― T. Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville
    tags: time
    14 likes

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  • #22
    Graeme Rodaughan
    “I value liberty above all else. Without liberty, no other value can be realized.”
    ― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War
    tags: liberty
    62 likes

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  • #23
    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
    45298 likes

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  • #24
    Steven Wright
    “Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
    ― Steven Wright
    tags: amnesia, humor, memory
    4691 likes

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  • #25
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
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  • #26
    “Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?”
    ― Frank Scully
    tags: misattributed-h-jackson-browne, misattributed-jimmy-carter, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-will-rogers
    229 likes



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