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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton
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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally
    tags: brains, marriage
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: secrets
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    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness
    3191 likes

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    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    H.G. Wells
    “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
    tags: jealousy, morality
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    George Burns
    “If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
    ― George Burns
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    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
    tags: intelligence, mind, poverty
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    William Faulkner
    “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
    ― William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
    tags: freedom
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    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    “The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
    ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
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    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
    4540 likes

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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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    William Ralph Inge
    “It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”
    ― William Ralph Inge
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: fantasy, humor, scifi
    23511 likes

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    Elizabeth Taylor
    “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
    ― Elizabeth Taylor
    tags: indulgence, virtue
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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    Carl Sandburg
    “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
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    Derek Walcott
    “The time will come
    when, with elation,
    you will greet yourself arriving
    at your own door, in your own mirror,
    and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
    ― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes
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    Edith Wharton
    “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
    ― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
    tags: carpe-diem, day, daytime, window
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    Romain Rolland
    “Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
    ― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron
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    Gertrude Stein
    “We are always the same age inside. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: self-confidence
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    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
    ― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu
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    Nadezhda Mandelstam
    “I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
    ― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope
    tags: silence, voice
    2533 likes



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