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#1

“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: experimentation, failure

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#2

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: dedication, inspiration

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#3

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: inspirational, perseverance, tenacity

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#4

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

tags: friends, humor, people

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#5

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#6

“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”
― Sydney J. Harris

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#7

“You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.”
― Laurence J. Peter

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#8

“The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".”
― Laura Schlessinger

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#9

“Live your life the way you
Want Your kids to live theirs.”
― Michael First

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#10

“Live so your Friends can defend you,
But never have to.”
― Arnold H. Glasow

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#11

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”
― Barbra Streisand

tags: husbands, marriage, men, men-and-women, wives, women

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#12

“What I'm looking for is a Blessing NOT in disguise!”
― Kitty O'Neil

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#13

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: free-speech

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#14

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
― John Wooden

tags: mayinspirational-quotes

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#16

“You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve, or the ones you create.”
― Mike Murdock

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#17

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#18

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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#19

“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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#20

“Love is a better master than duty.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: love

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#21

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
― Helen Keller

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#22

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller

tags: by-anne-sullivan, emotions, feelings

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#23

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”
― Edward Everett Hale

tags: making-a-difference

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#24

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

tags: inspirational, life

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#25

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
― Louisa May Alcott

tags: aspirations, dreams, goals, ideals

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#26

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
― Helen Keller

tags: character

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#27

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books

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#28

“I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”
― Louisa May Alcott

tags: inspiration, wisdom

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#29

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: inspirational-ship-storms

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#30

“If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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#31

“Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.”
― Louisa May Alcott

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