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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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    Bob Marley
    “Who are you to judge the life I live?
    I know I'm not perfect
    -and I don't live to be-
    but before you start pointing fingers...
    make sure you hands are clean!”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: judge, life, live, perfection
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    Albert Einstein
    “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, respect
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    John Greenleaf Whittier
    “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
    ― John Greenleaf Whittier
    tags: life, words
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    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    ― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: inspirational, life, spiritual, uplifting
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    tags: death, humor, life
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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
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    Stephanie Klein
    “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
    ― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: expectation, hope, life
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: cynical, life, truth
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    John Lennon
    “The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, life, perception, truth
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  • #24
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Robert Orben
    “Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
    ― Robert Orben
    tags: humour, politics, truth
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    William S. Burroughs
    “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: drugs, philosophy, politics
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    Toba Beta
    “When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness,
    there are three things that can show you the way:
    instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation,
    creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: creative, darkness, imagination, knowledge, navigation, spirit, survival, survive, way
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    Théophile Gautier
    “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
    ― Théophile Gautier
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Mark Twain
    “The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, philosophy, religion
    2510 likes



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