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#1

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
― Jane Addams

tags: humanity, inequality, rights, security, society

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#2

“You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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#3

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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#4

“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

tags: couples, deep, dissapointment, fate, heart, inspirational, love, people, romance

2759 likes

#5

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

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#6

“Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
― Charles Lamb

tags: new-years

1031 likes

#7

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

7579 likes

#8

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

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#9

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes." -”
― Clare Boothe Luce

tags: activism, inspirational, women-s-empowerment

117 likes

#10

“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.”
― Clare Luce Booth

tags: censorship

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#11

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Clare Booth Luce

tags: dry-humor

23 likes

#12

“There are no hopeless situations;there are only people who have grown hopeless about then.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

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#13

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

tags: art, creatives, creativity, lying, storytelling

11 likes

#14

“Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

tags: abhor, nature, virgin, virgins

9 likes

#15

“Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

tags: courage-builder

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#16

“Don't worry about your studies. When you want to do them well you will do them superbly. But for the moment the main thing is to get what little happiness there is in this wartorn world because "these are only good old days" now.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

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#17

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

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