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    H.L. Mencken
    “If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”
    ― H. L. Mencken
    tags: death, epitaph
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    Azar Nafisi
    “You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”
    ― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves
    tags: humor
    114 likes

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    Walt Whitman
    “My words itch at your ears till you understand them”
    ― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
    tags: learning, teaching, teaching-as-leadership
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  • #5
    Salman Rushdie
    “I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, Fury
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: wisdom
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  • #7
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon
    tags: girls, love, men
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    J.D. Salinger
    “If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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    Ayn Rand
    “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: inspirational, life, spiritual, uplifting
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  • #11
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    tags: inspirational, life
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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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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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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: inspirational
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    Gautama Buddha
    “There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
    ― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
    tags: inspirational
    2303 likes

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    Barack Obama
    “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: change, inspirational
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    Gautama Buddha
    “All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”
    ― Gautama Buddha
    tags: inspirational
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    Markus Zusak
    “Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: hope, inspirational, life, philosophy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: inspirational, life, work
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    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie
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  • #22
    Mother Teresa
    “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: compassion, connecting, humanity, inspirational, love, sharing
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: grief, inspirational
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    Joseph Conrad
    “My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
    tags: inspirational, power-of-words, writing
    813 likes

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    Dale Carnegie
    “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life
    6278 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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  • #27
    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
    5162 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
    2740 likes

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    Charles M. Schulz
    “Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: philosophy
    2067 likes

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    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    ― Benjamin Spock
    tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance
    5377 likes



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