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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “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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  • #4
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading
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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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    Mark Waid
    “Socrates should have written comics.”
    ― Mark Waid
    tags: comics, philosophy, socrates
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    Mark Waid
    “Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?”
    ― Mark Waid, Kingdom Come #2: Truth and Justice
    tags: batman, comic, comics, graphic-novel, plan, plot, superhero
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    Mark Waid
    “We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer war with hope. We are, each of us, important.”
    ― Mark Waid
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  • #13
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: close-mindedness, ignorance, willful-ignorance
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  • #14
    Adam Silvera
    “The boy with no direction taught me something unforgettable: happiness comes again if you let it.”
    ― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not
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    Adam Silvera
    “I've become this happiness scavenger who picks away at the ugliness of the world, because if there's happiness tucked away in my tragedies, I'll find it no matter what. If the blind can find joy in music, and the deaf can discover it with colors, I will do my best to always find the sun in the darkness because my life isn't one sad ending—it's a series of endless happy beginnings.”
    ― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not
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    Jack Kerouac
    “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: adventure, goodbye, travel
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
    tags: book, book-club, book-lunch, books, brain, companion, education, encouragement, encyclopedia, knowledge, library, life, lifestyle, read, reading, research, scholarship, search-light, story, study, study-time, thinking, time
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “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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  • #19
    “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
    ― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein
    tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words
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    “I’m no cactus expert, but I know a prick when I see one.”
    ― Mark A. Cooper, Royal Decree
    tags: funny, humor, prick, rude-quote, schoolboy-quote, witty-comebacks
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  • #21
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be crumbled.
    So wild flowers will come up where you are.
    You have been stony for too many years.
    Try something different.
    Surrender.”
    ― Rumi
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    Pierce Brown
    “I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind—how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Golden Son
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  • #23
    Beem Weeks
    “Those who continue to live in the past will never have a future!”
    ― Beem Weeks
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  • #24
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, religion
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  • #25
    Susun S. Weed
    “My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.”
    ― Susun Weed
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  • #26
    “I'd rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona.”
    ― Lucille Bluth
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  • #27
    H.G. Wells
    “By our daylight standard he walked out of security into darkness, danger, and death.
    But did he see like that?”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Door in the Wall
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    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: better
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  • #30
    Margaret Atwood
    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: apocryphal, feminism
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