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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: heartbreak
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
    tags: inspirational, values
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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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    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: dreams, future, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: beauty, inner-beauty, inspirational
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    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
    ― Richard Feynmann
    tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-speech, truth-telling
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    Franz Kafka
    “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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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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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
    ...live in the question.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
    ― Hermann Hesse
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding
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    W.B. Yeats
    “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
    tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder
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    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: inspirational, wonder
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    William Blake
    “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    tags: infinity, perception
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