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#1

“We love because it's the only true adventure.”
― Nikki Giovanni

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“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.”
― Nikki Giovanni

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#3

“Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”
― Nikki Giovanni

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#4

“I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.”
― Nikki Giovanni

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#5

“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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#6

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#7

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#8

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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#9

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#10

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

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#11

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

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#12

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: books, truth

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#13

“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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#14

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

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#15

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: patriotism, politics

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

tags: travel

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#17

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, philosophy, religion

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#18

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

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#19

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain

tags: courage

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#20

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
― Mark Twain

tags: appreciation, companionship, joy

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#21

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#22

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

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#23

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, inspirational

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#24

“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-children

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#25

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
― Mark Twain

tags: laughter

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#26

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

tags: education

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#27

“All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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#28

“If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

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#29

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

tags: housework, repetition, sisyphus

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#30

“If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.”
― Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman

tags: africa, humor

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