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"Ignorance is bliss."
— Thomas Grey

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"Just when you accept just as you are, then you can change."
— Carl Rogers

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"imagination is the highest kite than one can fly"
— Lauren Bacall

tags: imagination
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"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
— Colette

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"Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans."
— Betty Talmadge

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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
— Amelia Earhart

tags: bravery, courage, life, peace
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"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."
— Martha Washington

tags: attitude, circumstances, happiness
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"Who knows the thoughts of a child?"
— Nora Perry

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"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

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"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."
— Doris Lessing

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"I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say."
— Elizabeth Gaskell

tags: humor, reasoning
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"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."
— Marya Mannes

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"One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom. "
— Susan Howatch

tags: british, writer
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"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
— Les Brown

tags: inspirational
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"It's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
- Brom"
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
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"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
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"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
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"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."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
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"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
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"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 frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
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"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: imagination, inspirational
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
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"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. "
— Bill Gates

tags: humor, work
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"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library
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"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television
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"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor
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"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."
— Neil Gaiman (American Gods)

tags: books, bookstore, towns
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"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
— Stephen King

tags: -on, from, writing-
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"Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear."
— Lemony Snicket (The Carnivorous Carnival)

tags: humor, miracles
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"Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. "
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

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"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."
— W.C. Fields

tags: humor, success
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"That was the funniest thing I'd heard in days.
"You're kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you have a stronger motive for me than 'fair is fair.' Life isn't FAIR, Dean....Nothing is fair, EVER. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I need to help you because FAIR IS FAIR? Try, 'I need you to help me so I won't rip out your spine and beat you with it.' I MIGHT respond to that. MAYBE.""
— James Patterson (School's Out - Forever)

tags: humor, maxride
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"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: fear, unknown
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"Edward - I wasn't about to send you off alone. With your luck, not even the black box would survive.
Bella - So let's say my bad luck did crash the plane. What exactly were you going to do about it?
Edward - Why is the plane crashing?
He was trying to hide a smile now.
Bella - The pilots are passed out drunk.
Edward - Easy. I'd fly the plane.
Of course. I pursed my lips and tried again.
Bella - Both engines have exploded and we're falling in a death spiral toward the earth.
Edward - I'd wait till we were close enough to the ground, get a good grip on you, kick out the wall, and jump. Then I'd run you back to the scene of the accident, and we'd stumble around like the two luckiest survivors in history.
I stared at him wordlessly.
"What?" he whispered."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

tags: humor
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"There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway."
— Lemony Snicket (The Austere Academy)

tags: truth, violin
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"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movies
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