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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: love, misattributed, peace, william-gladstone
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
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    James Baldwin
    “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
    ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
    tags: fear, hate, pain
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    James Baldwin
    “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: dissent, patriotism, protest
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    “War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: misattributed-bernard-shaw, misattributed-bertrand-russell, war
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Cornel West
    “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
    ― Cornel West
    tags: justice, love, society, wisdom
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    James Baldwin
    “The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world
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    James Baldwin
    “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
    ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
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    Aldous Huxley
    “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    John Williams
    “In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
    ― John Williams, Stoner
    tags: growth, love
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    Edward Gibbon
    “We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
    ― Edward Gibbon
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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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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    Mark Twain
    “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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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.”
    ― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child
    tags: doctrine, equal-rights, freedom, liberty, morality, rights
    536 likes



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