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    Mark Twain
    “There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.”
    ― Dostoyevsky Fyodor
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one
    soul, and he has got dozens.”
    ― DH Lawrence
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    Mark Twain
    “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: remaining-silent, reticence
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.”
    ― DH Lawrence
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    Mark Twain
    “Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: facts, statistics
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Mark Twain
    “The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Mark Twain
    “I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: spelling
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    Walt Whitman
    “From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.”
    ― Walt Whitman
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Walt Whitman
    “Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.”
    ― Walt Whitman
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    Walt Whitman
    “The road to wisdom is paved with excess.

    The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: mistakes, overindulgence, wisdom, writing
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  • #16
    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: poetry
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  • #17
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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  • #19
    “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
    ― Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest
    tags: misattributed-to-gandhi
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  • #20
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: ecology, inspirational-quotes, nature, trees
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  • #21
    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: change
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  • #22
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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  • #23
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “If we surrendered
    to earth's intelligence
    we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
    tags: nature, poetry
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  • #24
    Shel Silverstein
    “Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree
    tags: self-sacrifice
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  • #25
    Max Ehrmann
    “You are a child of the universe,
    no less than the trees and the stars;
    you have a right to be here.
    And whether or not it is clear to you,
    no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
    ― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
    tags: life, uncertainty
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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    William Blake
    “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: imagination, inspiration, nature, trees
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  • #28
    Orson Scott Card
    “Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.”
    ― Orson Scott Card
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  • #29
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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  • #31
    James Baldwin
    “Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.”
    ― James Baldwin
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