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#1

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

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#2

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker

tags: inspirational, justice, mlk

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#3

“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
― Euripides

tags: answer, learn, question

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#4

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
― Euripides

tags: friendship

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#5

“Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.”
― William Faulkner, Mosquitoes

tags: fool, silence, stupidity, talking, words

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#6

“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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#7

“You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you”
― Mark Twain

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#8

“They did not know it was impossible so they did it”
― Mark Twain

tags: impossible

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#9

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”
― Robert Browning

tags: growing-old, old-age

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#10

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism

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#11

“If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.”
― Mark Twain, The Gilded Age

tags: humor, nature

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#12

“A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.”
― Mark Twain, The Gilded Age

tags: guessing, intuition, man, woman

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#13

“Most new discoveries are suddenly seen things that were always there.”
― Susanne K. Langer

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#14

“In art as in love, instinct is enough. ”
― Anatole France

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#15

“The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
― Horace Greeley

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#16

“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”
― Horace Greeley

tags: writing

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#17

“Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.”
― Anatole France

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#18

“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.”
― Anatole France

tags: anatole-france

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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

tags: inspirational

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#20

“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
― Anatole France

tags: bible, devil, god, scriptures

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#21

“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”
― Anatole France

tags: journey, process

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#22

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
― Anatole France

tags: books, lending, library

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#23

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
― Anatole France

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#24

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
― Anatole France

tags: curiosity, teaching

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#25

“It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.”
― Anatole France

tags: arrogance, truth, zealotry

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#26

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
― Anatole France, Works of Anatole France

tags: achievement, aspirations, belief, dreams

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#27

“Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.”
― Anatole France

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#28

“I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
― Anatole France

tags: inspirational

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#29

“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
― Anatole France

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#30

“The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.”
― Anatole France

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