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#1

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#2

“If more people valued home, above gold, this world would be a merrier place...”
― Thorin Oakenshield

tags: bilbo-baggins, the-hobbit, thorin-oakenshield

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#3

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

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#4

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

tags: data, deduction, information, mistake, theories, theory

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#5

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#6

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#7

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: dr-watson, introduction, sherlock-holmes

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#8

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#9

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#10

“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.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#11

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#12

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#13

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#14

“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: doctrine-of-the-sword

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#15

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
― Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères

tags: time

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#16

“You see, but you do not observe.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

tags: kindlehighlight

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#17

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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#18

“I followed you.'

I saw no one.'

That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Die Teufelskralle

tags: holmes

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#19

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

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#20

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy

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#21

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: hope, human-nature

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#22

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness

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#23

“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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#24

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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#25

“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circle orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: constancy, love, promises

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#26

“The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.”
― Victor Hugo

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#27

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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#28

“Many bad men are rich, many good men are poor; but we shall not exchange wealth for honour, for money flits from man to man but honour abides forever.”
― Solon

tags: honour, poverty, wealth

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#29

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: editing, on-writing

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#30

“Often those with less have more.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

tags: christmas, family, freedom, friends, holidays, kindness, laughter, love, spirituality, togetherness

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