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#1

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

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#2

“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.”
― Douglas Bader

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#3

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

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#4

“Meow” means “woof” in cat.”
― George Carlin

tags: animals, cats, dogs, humor, language

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#5

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

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#6

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#7

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”
― George Carlin

tags: dreams, humor

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#8

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
― George Carlin

tags: common-sense, equality, feminism, humanism, humor, inspirational, men-and-women

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#9

“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.”
― Robert H. Schuller

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#10

“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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#11

“Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better. ”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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#12

“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. ”
― Ray Bradbury

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#13

“Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.”
― L. Ron Hubbard

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#14

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: humor, writing

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#15

“And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. ”
― Isaac Asimov

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#16

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
― Agatha Christie

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#17

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: archeology, growing-older, marriage

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#18

“One never knows, do one?”
― Lawrence Sanders

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#19

“...age-old evil, tireless and vigilant, cloaked from the masses by modern skepticism, yet still a potent force stalking the dark ways of the night.”
― Dennis Wheatley, The Devil Rides Out (Duke de Richleau, #6)

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#20

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
― Booker T. Washington

tags: hate, hatred

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#21

“Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.”
― Eric Hoffer

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#22

“A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.”
― E. Stanley Jones

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#24

“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
― Eldridge Cleaver

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#25

“It is a principle of nature to hate those whom you have injured.”
― Tacitus

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#26

“Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.”
― Honore de Balzac

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#28

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

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#29

“Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#30

“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
― Erich Fromm

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#31

“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.”
― Tom Gates

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#32

“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
― William Shakespeare

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