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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    William Shakespeare
    “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Daniel Kahneman
    “A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
    ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
    tags: psychology, science, social-behavior
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    Daniel Kahneman
    “Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
    ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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    Daniel Kahneman
    “We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.”
    ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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  • #7
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I love those who can smile in trouble...”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: adversity, attitude, cheerfulness
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.”
    ― Dale Carnegie
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization
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    Coco Chanel
    “Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
    ― Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
    tags: attitudes, belief, confidence, failure, self-confidence, success
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
    tags: conduct-of-life, life, self-confidence, self-trust
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    Muhammad Ali Jinnah
    “I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”
    ― Muhammad Ali Jinnah
    tags: inspirational, positive-attitude, self-awareness, self-confidence, self-improvement
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
    tags: self-confidence, self-reliance, self-trust, trust
    473 likes

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  • #16
    “No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy”
    ― paris hilton
    tags: attractiveness, self-confidence
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  • #17
    Jack Welch
    “Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will”
    ― Jack Welch
    tags: be-yourself, destiny, inspiration, motivation, self-confidence, self-determination
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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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    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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    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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    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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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101562 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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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
    71688 likes

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  • #31
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    84855 likes



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