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    Mark Twain
    “I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: compliments, flattery
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    Courtney Love
    “I want to be the girl with the most cake.”
    ― Courtney Love
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    “Marian exhaled. 'Because God made me a woman is no reason to be such a woman as men wish to make me.”
    ― A.E. Chandler, The Scarlet Forest: A Tale of Robin Hood
    tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, inspirational, international-womens-day, life, women-and-men, women-empowerment, women-s-inspirational, women-s-strength
    23 likes

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    Edgar Degas
    “Success! Success! The enemy of progress!”
    ― Edgar Degas
    tags: inspirational, life, success
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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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    A.E. Chandler
    “Robert again faced the sky. “That is a children’s dream, Marian. We are old enough that we must think of realities.”
    “The reality is that I have no place, excepting I carve out one alone.”
    ― A.E. Chandler, The Scarlet Forest: A Tale of Robin Hood
    tags: dream, inspirational, life, life-lessons, quote, reality
    8 likes

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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    tags: fun, life, money
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    Martin Luther
    “I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.”
    ― Martin Luther
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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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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    Mark Twain
    “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
    tags: travel
    3985 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem
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    Mark Twain
    “Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bad-reviews, humor, jane-austen
    70 likes

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    James Burke
    “When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
    ― James Burke
    2519 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: adventure, grammar, grammar-humor, humor, humour, science-fiction, space-travel, star-trek-references
    139 likes

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    A.A. Milne
    “The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: independent-thought, thinking
    518 likes

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    Rebecca West
    “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
    ― Rebecca West
    tags: feminism, qotd
    3080 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
    4202 likes

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    Courtney Love
    “I don’t need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.”
    ― Courtney Love
    tags: inspiration, inspirational
    51 likes

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    Baltasar Gracián
    “A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.”
    ― Baltasar Gracián
    tags: description, grammar, speech, spelling, synonyms, vocabulary, writing
    159 likes

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    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
    tags: books
    8711 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
    28795 likes

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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
    3989 likes

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    “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
    ― Selwyn Duke
    tags: misattributed-to-orwell
    230 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
    4326 likes

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    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    ― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
    tags: life, pain
    6210 likes

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

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    John Kenneth Galbraith
    “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”
    ― John Kenneth Galbraith
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    Jasper Fforde
    “If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten
    tags: life, world
    2693 likes

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    Robin Williams
    “You're only given a spark of madness. You musn't lose it.”
    ― Robin Williams
    397 likes



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