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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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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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  • #6
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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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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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
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  • #11
    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
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  • #12
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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  • #13
    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    ― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
    tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: imperfect, love
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Mercy
    tags: inequality, love, marriage
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    Jodi Picoult
    “There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
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    Jodi Picoult
    “When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
    tags: love
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
    tags: growing-up
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You can't edit a blank page”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: from-npr
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  • #22
    Jodi Picoult
    “The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Things break all the time.
    Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
    Promises break.
    Hearts break.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
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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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    Dr. Seuss
    “If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: dr-seuss
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: education, marriage
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: inspirational, reason, sorrow, trial
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “You changed the subject."
    "From what?"
    "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy."
    "You know."
    "Know what?"
    "That I only have eyes for you.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: alone, man-s-heart, men, sad, violence, women
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: secrets, surface
    81 likes



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