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"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

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"You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

tags: family
11 people liked it

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

35 people liked it

"Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

tags: poltiical, science
23 people liked it

"Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

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"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
— A.A. Milne

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"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

86 people liked it

"Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave."
— A.A. Milne

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""Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh.
"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he.
"Why, what's the matter?"
"Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it."
"Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose.
"Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.""
— A.A. Milne

tags: diversity
23 people liked it

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that tone is constantly making exciting discoveries"
— A.A. Milne

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"Bother."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

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""If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.”"
— A.A. Milne (winnie the pooh)

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"If you live to be 100, I wish I live to be 100. Minus 1 day, so I never have to be without you."
— A.A. Milne

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""When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
"It's the same thing," he said.

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— A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)

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"I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

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"Friendship, said Christopher Robin, is a very comforting thing to have."
— A.A. Milne

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"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you
believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you
think."
— A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh

tags: pooh, winnie
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"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
3,029 people liked it

"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."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
2,355 people liked it

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"

"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"

"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said."
— A.A. Milne

152 people liked it

"'We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
'Even longer,' Pooh answered."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
733 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,352 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,377 people liked it

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

tags: life, love
2,963 people liked it

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

tags: failure, inspirational, success
2,308 people liked it

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: opportunity, optimism, pessimism
1,700 people liked it

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
1,653 people liked it

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
— Aristotle

tags: politics
72 people liked it

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

1,055 people liked it

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
— Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war
379 people liked it

"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Two Towers)

tags: lotr, war
259 people liked it

"War is what happens when language fails."
— Margaret Atwood

tags: war
333 people liked it

"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die."
— Herbert Hoover

tags: age, death, fighting, old, war, youth
199 people liked it

"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: banks, destruction, federal, financial, loans, money, philosophy, political, politics, power, science, society, violence, war
131 people liked it

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
— Mark Twain

tags: newspapers
508 people liked it

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
— Mark Twain

tags: age
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"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
— Mark Twain

tags: politics
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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: age, dreams, goals
419 people liked it

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is."
— Ellen DeGeneres

tags: age, exercise, family, grandmothers, grandparents, humor, walking
329 people liked it

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
— H.L. Mencken

tags: age, humor, old, wisdom
261 people liked it

"The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble."
— Ellen DeGeneres

tags: aliens, earth, humanity, outer, space, universe
56 people liked it

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
— Mark Twain

tags: living, world
1,059 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,894 people liked it

"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
6,148 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,059 people liked it

"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
7,668 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,935 people liked it

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
— Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, kindness
150 people liked it

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."
— Mark Twain

tags: happiness
147 people liked it

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
— Mark Twain

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