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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: beauty, class, fashion, girls, women
    6061 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: life, time
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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, The Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: inspirational
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
    For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse
    tags: humor, irish, song, war
    327 likes

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    Bernie Mcgill
    “Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.”
    ― Bernie Mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet
    tags: gothic, historical-fiction, ireland, irish, literary-fiction, mother, passion, secret, victorian
    161 likes

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    Frank Delaney
    “Every pain is a lesson.”
    ― Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker of Kenmare
    tags: learning, lesson, lessons, pain, perseverance, the-matchmaker-of-kenmare
    68 likes

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    Frank Harte
    “Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs.”
    ― Frank Harte
    tags: ireland, songwriting
    73 likes

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    Tamara Ireland Stone
    “You look around at the people in your life, one by one, choosing to hold on to the ones who make you stronger and better, and letting go of the ones who don't.”
    ― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word
    tags: friendship, letting-go
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    Justina Ireland
    “See, the problem in this world ain’t sinners, or even the dead. It is men who will step on anyone who stands in the way of their pursuit of power.”
    ― Justina Ireland, Dread Nation
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    The Script
    “Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.”
    ― The Script
    tags: ireland, music, rage, singing, the-script, writing
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    Pádraic Pearse
    “If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it by a better deed.”
    ― Pádraig Pearse
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    Richard Puz
    “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
    From an Irish headstone”
    ― Richard Puz, The Carolinian
    tags: death, death-and-love, death-of-a-loved-one, eternal-love, healing, healing-the-past, heartache-love, heartbreak, love-hurts, memorial, memories, memory
    782 likes

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    Charles Bukowski
    “For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: atheism, religion
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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4084 likes

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    Veronica Roth
    “We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
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  • #23
    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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  • #24
    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
    tags: war
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    John Steinbeck
    “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: conflict, politics, war
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    Harper Lee
    “It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: bravery
    1898 likes

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    Howard Zinn
    “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: nationalism, patriotism, war
    1828 likes



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