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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”
    ― Abraham Maslow
    tags: random
    209 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
    1988 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, attributed-no-source, difference, paradox, significance
    1637 likes

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  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: fearlessness, morality, path, true
    83 likes

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  • #7
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Be polite to all, but intimate with few.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    71 likes

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  • #8
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: history, past
    112 likes

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  • #9
    P.J. O'Rourke
    “Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
    ― P.J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World
    tags: altruism, dishes, earth, help, mom, save
    210 likes

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  • #10
    George Bernard Shaw
    “When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: perspective
    356 likes

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    Matsuo Bashō
    “Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
    ― Matsuo Bashō
    tags: wisdom
    413 likes

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  • #12
    “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
    ― Guatama Buddha
    tags: inspirational
    112 likes

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  • #13
    Victor Hugo
    “Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: melancholy, pleasure, sad, sorrow
    688 likes

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  • #14
    “Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”
    ― Roger Miller
    tags: rain
    343 likes

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  • #15
    Calvin Coolidge
    “Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”
    ― Calvin Coolidge
    tags: deity, instrument, prosperity, tools, worship
    60 likes

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    Dōgen
    “When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring.”
    ― Eihei Dogen
    tags: apricots, koan, peaches, plums, spring, willows, zen
    48 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: irreligion, organized-religion, religion
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
    tags: discussion, obscurity, talking
    78 likes

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  • #19
    Voltaire
    “He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: ignorance, wisdom
    265 likes

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  • #20
    Voltaire
    “In every author, let us distinguish the man from his work.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #21
    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
    4626 likes

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  • #22
    Nāgārjuna
    “All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.”
    ― Nagarjuna
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  • #24
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    1722 likes

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  • #25
    Epictetus
    “If you wish to be a writer, write.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: writers, writing
    110 likes

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  • #26
    Ryōkan
    “In this world of dreams, drifting off still more; and once again speaking and dreaming of dreams. Just let it be.”
    ― Ryokan
    tags: dreams
    19 likes

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    Francis A. Schaeffer
    “Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.”
    ― Francis Schaeffer
    tags: bible, compassion, orthodoxy
    127 likes

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  • #28
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
    tags: contradiction, correcting, correction, criticism, inspirational, opinions, paranoia
    989 likes

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  • #29
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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  • #30
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    572 likes

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  • #31
    Marilyn Manson
    “Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?”
    ― Marilyn Manson
    tags: adult, child, entertainment, killing
    102 likes

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  • #32
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    137 likes



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