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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    J.K. Rowling
    “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore, strength, unity
    10778 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: fighting, hurt, inner-peace, peace, permission, strength, trial
    5637 likes

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    Lilith Saintcrow
    “Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
    ― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels
    tags: girls, inspirational, pretty, strength, women
    3619 likes

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    Emilie Autumn
    “It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
    ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength
    6037 likes

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    Frederick Douglass
    “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: strength
    1745 likes

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    Phyllis Diller
    “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
    ― Phyllis Diller
    tags: anger, funny, sleep
    8248 likes

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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: dirty, funny, logo, sex
    6869 likes

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    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: funny, humanity, humor
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    Cathy Guisewite
    “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
    ― Cathy Guiswite
    tags: eyes, funny, lemons
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
    4194 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent
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    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: language, perception, power-of-words
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    Matt Groening
    “I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
    ― Matt Groening
    tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary
    2231 likes

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    Alan W. Watts
    “The menu is not the meal.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: language, metaphysics, names, nominalism, philosophy, power-of-words, words
    777 likes

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    Mark Slouka
    “Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”
    ― Mark Slouka, God's Fool
    tags: language, loss, words
    336 likes

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    William S. Burroughs
    “Language is a virus from outer space”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: language
    281 likes

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    Jacques Derrida
    “What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
    ― Jacques Derrida
    tags: censorship, language, speech, truth, writing
    417 likes

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    Wilkie Collins
    “Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: language, words
    234 likes

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    Lani Diane Rich
    “You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class”
    ― Lani Diane Rich
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Language is the source of misunderstandings.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: french, language, writer
    128 likes

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  • #24
    “It's only words... unless they're true.”
    ― David Mamet
    tags: aphorism, language, truth
    112 likes

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    Slavoj Žižek
    “We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
    ― Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
    tags: freedom, language
    586 likes

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    Juan de la Cruz
    “They can be like the sun, words.
    They can do for the heart what light can for a field.”
    ― St. John of the Cross, The Poems of St. John of the Cross
    tags: language, sun, words
    132 likes

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  • #27
    “Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!”
    ― Eddie Izzard, Definite Article
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  • #28
    “Humor is a universal lanuage.”
    ― Joel Goodman
    tags: humor, language, universal
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”
    ― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
    tags: language, poetry, wordplay, writing
    78 likes

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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas
    tags: language
    57 likes



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