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“If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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“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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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#5

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#6

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#7

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#9

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#10

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#12

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#13

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#14

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#15

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#16

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#17

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#18

“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

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#19

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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#20

“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: hard-work, luck

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#21

“Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

tags: love

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#22

“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald

tags: envy

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#23

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

tags: darkness, human-nature, moon

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#24

“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: conversation, human-nature, weekend

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#25

“In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Baby

tags: human-nature, inspirational, literature, motivational, trust

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#26

“Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.”
― Erol Ozan

tags: altruism, empathy, helping, human-nature, life-lesson, life-lessons

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#27

“As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.”
― Alexandre Dumas

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#28

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

tags: creation, destruction, flawed, human-character, human-nature

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“When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: consciousness, honesty, human-nature, lying, man, penalize, psychology, punishment, reaction, response, self-defense, unconscious-mind

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#30

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time

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#31

“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: afternoon, december, flewn, june, late, night, soon, time

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