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    Ayn Rand
    “To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: compromise, life, self, soul
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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Ayn Rand
    “I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: death, die, fountainhead, life, live, mortality
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
    tags: cynicism
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.”
    ― Francois La Rochefoucauld
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.”
    ― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.”
    ― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”
    ― Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: faults
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.”
    ― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?”
    ― Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: cleverness, foolishness, intelligence, madness, passion
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “In jealousy there is more of self-love than love”
    ― Francois De La Rochefoucault
    tags: jealousy
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.”
    ― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
    tags: boredom, people, society
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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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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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Groucho Marx
    “From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading
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    Groucho Marx
    “I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.”
    ― Groucho Marx, Groucho and Me
    tags: clique, clubs, humor, membership
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    Groucho Marx
    “I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”
    ― Groucho Marx
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    Groucho Marx
    “He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: gibe, insult
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    Groucho Marx
    “While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: money
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