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  • #1
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93523 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
    77750 likes

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  • #4
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
    ― Mahatma Ghandi
    tags: felicity, fortune, wealth
    396 likes

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  • #5
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I was reading.”
    ― Ghandi
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  • #6
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Ghandi
    238 likes

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  • #7
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.”
    ― Ghandi
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  • #8
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.”
    ― Mahatma Ghandi
    tags: animals, humankind, inspiration, morals, protection
    104 likes

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  • #9
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    37982 likes

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  • #10
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
    6769 likes

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  • #11
    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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  • #12
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: animals, dogs
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  • #13
    Lorraine Hansberry
    “There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry
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  • #14
    Lorraine Hansberry
    “I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!"
    "Finish your eggs first.”
    ― Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
    tags: humor
    68 likes

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  • #15
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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  • #16
    Malcolm X
    “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: activism, truth
    2306 likes

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  • #17
    Toni Morrison
    “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
    tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight
    3810 likes

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  • #18
    Hillary Rodham Clinton
    “Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.”
    ― Hillary Rodham Clinton
    159 likes

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  • #19
    “You can cage the singer but not the song.”
    ― Harry Belafonte
    tags: inspirational
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  • #20
    Marcus Garvey
    “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
    ― Marcus Garvey
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  • #21
    Marcus Garvey
    “If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ”
    ― Marcus Garvey
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    Michelle Obama
    “Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with.”
    ― Michelle Obama
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    Michelle Obama
    “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.”
    ― Michelle Obama
    tags: inspirational, success
    170 likes

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  • #24
    Cheris Kramarae
    “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
    ― Cheris Kramarae
    tags: feminism, women
    2602 likes

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  • #25
    Chinua Achebe
    “My weapon is literature
    ”
    ― Chinua Achebe
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  • #26
    Nadifa Mohamed
    “... the weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers”
    ― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls
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  • #27
    “May your hope keep you joyful.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
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  • #28
    “To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.”
    ― Karen Sunde
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