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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Langston Hughes
    “Life is for the living.
    Death is for the dead.
    Let life be like music.
    And death a note unsaid.”
    ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
    tags: death, life, music
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    Judith Viorst
    “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
    ― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
    tags: chocolate, strength
    2169 likes

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    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: loneliness, people, scared, world
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    Jules Verne
    “We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
    ― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: books, reading
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: evil, good
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
    tags: writing
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    Wisława Szymborska
    “When I pronounce the word Future,
    the first syllable already belongs to the past.

    When I pronounce the word Silence,
    I destroy it.”
    ― Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected
    tags: future, silence
    1837 likes

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    Carol Shields
    “Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
    ― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love
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    Jean de la Fontaine
    “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
    ― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables
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    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    ― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues
    tags: morning, waking-up
    2792 likes

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    Irving Stone
    “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
    ― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
    tags: books, friendship
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress
    4046 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    ― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
    tags: books, reading
    4667 likes

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  • #18
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: secrets
    3580 likes

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    Thomas Babington Macaulay
    “What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
    ― Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay
    tags: books, reading
    2687 likes

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    Zig Ziglar
    “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
    ― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World
    tags: bathing, humor, motivation
    2551 likes

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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth
    1605 likes

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  • #22
    Steve Jobs
    “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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  • #23
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun
    tags: love
    2767 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
    18134 likes

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  • #29
    “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    2618 likes

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  • #30
    George Santayana
    “Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
    ― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
    tags: madness, sanity
    1715 likes



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