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    Jacqueline Patricks
    “Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it.”
    ― Jacqueline Patricks
    tags: cursing, cussing, jacqueline-patricks, profanity, real-life, writing
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    Socrates
    “One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: forgiveness, nobility
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    Socrates
    “Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?”
    ― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates
    tags: honesty, truth, truth-telling
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: evil, good-intentions, morality
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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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    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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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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  • #8
    “Strong people don't put others down... They lift them up.”
    ― Michael P. Watson
    tags: helping, helping-others, strong, support
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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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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    ― Robert Ingersoll
    tags: adversity, character, power
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    “It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.”
    ― George G. Williams, Guide to Literary London
    tags: english-professor, monotony, rice-university, writer-s-skill, writing
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    H.G. Wells
    “Our true nationality is mankind.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: nationalism, racism
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    H.G. Wells
    “Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    H.G. Wells
    “If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: writing
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    “A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back—bruised and aching—as he continues to strive for excellence due to the all-consuming obsession and love for his art.”
    ― H G Mewis
    tags: artist, constructive-criticism, h-g-mewis, heart, love, obsession
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    “Rules kill art.”
    ― H.G. Mewis
    tags: art, h-g-mewis, rules
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    “Money doesn't bring you happiness, it brings you the freedom to find it.”
    ― H.G. Mewis
    tags: freedom, h-g-mewis, happiness, money
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    “Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two.”
    ― H.G. Mewis
    tags: art, h-g-mewis, human-condition, life
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    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    ― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus
    tags: poetry
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    T.S. Eliot
    “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: memories, truth, wishes
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    T.S. Eliot
    “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
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    T.S. Eliot
    “The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: hope, humanity, library
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    T.S. Eliot
    “If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: inspirational
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
    ― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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    T.S. Eliot
    “If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: challenges, coping, thought-for-the-day
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: editor, writing
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: inspirational
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: creativity, inspirational
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  • #30
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII
    tags: freedom, liberty, slavery
    2206 likes



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