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"Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages."
— George Bernard Shaw

11 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,400 people liked it

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

tags: war
324 people liked it

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: fools, humility
32 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
6,042 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,617 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
6,924 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,344 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,267 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,888 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
4,903 people liked it

"I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me."
— Michel Foucault

9 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
7,206 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,004 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,187 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
7,506 people liked it

""There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.""
— Billie Joe Armstrong

28 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
7,869 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,208 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,168 people liked it

"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
5,570 people liked it

"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
9,203 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,735 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,062 people liked it

"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
11,741 people liked it

"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
10,107 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
5,974 people liked it

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,770 people liked it

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

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,842 people liked it

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition)

tags: inspirational
1,008 people liked it

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hatred, wisdom
615 people liked it

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

662 people liked it

"We are the change we have been waiting for."
— Barack Obama

tags: carpe-diem, change
177 people liked it

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. "
— Barack Obama

tags: change, inspirational
445 people liked it

"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."
— Barack Obama

tags: hope, service, work
143 people liked it

"A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things."
— Barack Obama

tags: activism, commitment, politics
152 people liked it

"I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers."
— Barack Obama (The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream)

41 people liked it

"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig."
— Barack Obama

18 people liked it

"Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared."
— Barack Obama

tags: 2008, speech, victory
25 people liked it

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our Democracy; Tonight is your answer."
— Barack Obama

tags: america, dreams, politics
23 people liked it

"And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope.

For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow."
— Barack Obama

9 people liked it

"It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!"
— George W. Bush

40 people liked it

"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes."
— Tony Blair

6 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
745 people liked it

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
2,932 people liked it

"It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: courage, friends
1,277 people liked it

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

tags: happiness
1,598 people liked it

"I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: trouble
334 people liked it

"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
358 people liked it

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: magic
167 people liked it

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