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#1

“Día vendrá en que los hombres eminentes que hoy sostienen la incapacidad intelectual de la mujer serán citados (...) y se leerán sus escritos con el asombro y el desconsuelo que causa ver en los de Platón y Aristóteles la defensa de la esclavitud.”
― Concepción Arenal, La mujer del porvenir (Pensamiento)

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#2

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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#3

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

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#4

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: dreams

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#5

“Do you remember how many breads you have eaten in your life?”
― Hirohiko Araki, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Part 1 - Phantom Blood, Tome 5

tags: inspirational

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#6

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins

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#8

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#9

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

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#10

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#11

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

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#12

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source

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#13

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

tags: philosophy

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#14

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life

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#15

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: attributed-no-source, courage

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#16

“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: afternoon, december, flewn, june, late, night, soon, time

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#17

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: seuss

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#18

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

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#19

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor

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#20

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: atheism, religion, skeptic

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#21

“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

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#22

“I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories

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#23

“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

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#24

“It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

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#25

“He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”
― H. H. Munro a

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#26

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
― Stephen King

tags: horror

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#27

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

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#28

“El verdadero amor, el sólido y durable, nace del trato; lo demás es invención de los poetas, de los músicos y demás gente holgazana.”
― Benito Pérez Galdós

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#29