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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    William W. Purkey
    “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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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
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    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
    tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance
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    John Steinbeck
    “No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    John Steinbeck
    “Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, hatred, understanding
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    John Steinbeck
    “You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?”
    ― John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday
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    John Steinbeck
    “You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
    tags: happy, honesty, life
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
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    Bill Watterson
    “Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?
    Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
    Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin.
    Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin, hobbes, humor, intelligence
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    Bill Watterson
    “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
    ― Bill Watterson
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    Bill Watterson
    “[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble.]
    Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box!
    Hobbes: "ZQFMGB" isn't a word! It doesn't even have a vowel!
    Calvin: It is so a word! It's a worm found in New Guinea! Everyone knows that!
    Hobbes: I'm looking it up.
    Calvin: You do, and I'll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js!
    Hobbes: What's your score for ZQFMGB?
    Calvin: 957.”
    ― Bill Watterson, Scientific Progress Goes "Boink": A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
    tags: humor, scrabble
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    Bill Watterson
    “Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?”
    ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: humor
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    Bill Watterson
    “If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
    tags: control, life
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    Margaret Wise Brown
    “Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
    ― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott
    tags: aspirations, dreams, goals, ideals
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: perspective, positive-attitude
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
    tags: a-little-princess, frances-hodgson-burnett, inspirational, princess
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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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    Willa Cather
    “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
    ― Willa Cather
    tags: love
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    Willa Cather
    “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
    ― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
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    Fred Rogers
    “When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
    ― Fred Rogers
    tags: friends, friendship, love, peace
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    Louis L'Amour
    “The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
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    E.B. White
    “Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
    ― E.B. White
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    E.B. White
    “Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”
    ― E.B. White
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