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    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
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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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    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas-fils
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: humor, insanity
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    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
    ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, women
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    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
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    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    ― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
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    David Sedaris
    “If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
    ― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
    tags: sympathy
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    W.C. Fields
    “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ
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    Suzanne Collins
    “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: falling-apart, giving-in
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    Maya Angelou
    “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination
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    Katie McGarry
    “I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”
    ― Katie McGarry, Take Me On
    tags: trouble
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
    34033 likes



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