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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: opportunity, optimism, pessimism
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
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"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, god, inspirational, religion
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
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"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
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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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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
— Albert Einstein

tags: mistakes
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"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
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"Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."
— Dorothy L. Sayers

tags: books
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"The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'
'Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'
'That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.'"
— David Eddings (King of the Murgos)

tags: books, librarians, libraries, library, scholar, scholarship, school
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