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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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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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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
    tags: love, pain, relationships, self
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: change, mind, nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: inspirational
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”
    ― Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: existentialism, student, teacher
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Hearts united in pain and sorrow
    will not be separated by joy and happiness.
    Bonds that are woven in sadness
    are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.
    Love that is washed by tears
    will remain eternally pure and faithful.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran
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    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
    tags: inspirational
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
    ― Bernard Baruch
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ
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    Robert Frost
    “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: new-england-wisdom
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    Robert Frost
    “Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: advice, caution, cautionary, inspirational
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    Adolf Hitler
    “Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”
    ― Adolf Hitler
    tags: defeat, hitler, victory
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
    ― Saint Augustine
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom
    tags: christian, god, jesus, pray, prayer
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: travel
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  • #28
    Walt Disney Company
    “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
    ― Walt Disney Company, Mulan
    tags: inspiration, life
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    Trisha Yearwood
    “What's meant to be will always find a way”
    ― Trisha Yearwood
    tags: fate, inspiration, love
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  • #30
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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