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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Joshua Slocum
    “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
    ― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
    tags: alone, books, friends, solitude
    3501 likes

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: dedication, hard-work, love, mastery, talent
    133 likes

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: clothes, clothing, conspicuous-consumption, expensive, image, impression, poor, prosperity, show-off
    61 likes

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: abnormal, aspiration, indoctrination, misfit, normal, opinions, rebel, society
    74 likes

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  • #6
    “No one ever drowned in sweat.”
    ― USMC
    tags: effort, hard-work
    99 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: bigger-picture, cookie, cute, faithfulness, figurative, foreknowledge, funny, god, hard-work, humility, humor, impatience, knowledge, literal, metaphor, misunderstanding, obedience, omniscience, patience, prayer, praying, prudence, time, timing, understanding, waiting, work
    112 likes

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    Muhammad Yunus
    “People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base.”
    ― Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
    tags: development, economics, hard-work, poverty
    92 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting
    1255 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: passion
    1829 likes

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  • #11
    Aldous Huxley
    “If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: loneliness
    2305 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    896 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “No social stability without individual stability.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: society
    544 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
    tags: change
    1278 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Do what you will: Twelve essays
    tags: consistency
    540 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: loneliness, self-expression, solitude
    271 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
    263 likes

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    Cathy Guisewite
    “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
    ― Cathy Guiswite
    tags: eyes, funny, lemons
    5194 likes

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    Martin Buber
    “An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
    ― Martin Buber
    tags: animals, eyes, langange, unspoken
    288 likes

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    August Wilson
    “Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you.”
    ― August Wilson, Fences
    tags: affection, like, respect
    34 likes

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  • #22
    Rick Riordan
    “Names have power.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: conjuring, names, power
    586 likes

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  • #23
    John Steinbeck
    “Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: corruption, fear, life, power
    657 likes

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  • #24
    George Orwell
    “We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: power
    511 likes

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  • #25
    Robert Thier
    “Knowledge is power is time is money.”
    ― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence
    tags: business, courage, philosophy, power
    523 likes

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  • #26
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
    10877 likes

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  • #27
    Jason Mraz
    “I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.”
    ― Jason Mraz
    tags: confidence, inspirational, life, music, power, spiritual, truth, work
    613 likes

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    Cassandra Clare
    “I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
    "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
    tags: clary-fray, demons, growing-up, humor, jace-wayland, luke, teenager
    12379 likes

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  • #29
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
    18080 likes

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    Anne Frank
    “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: growing-up, innocence, inspirational, parenting, personal-responsibility, right-of-passage, self-determination, self-responsibility
    2792 likes



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