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    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: inspirational
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    Alice Walker
    “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
    ― alice walker, The Color Purple
    tags: color, god, purple, religion
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    Randy Pausch
    “Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: experience
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    Randy Pausch
    “When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.”
    ― Randy Pausch
    tags: inspirational
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  • #5
    Stephen Crane
    “In the Desert

    In the desert
    I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
    Who, squatting upon the ground,
    Held his heart in his hands,
    And ate of it.
    I said, “Is it good, friend?”
    “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;

    “But I like it
    “Because it is bitter,
    “And because it is my heart.”
    ― Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines
    tags: bitterness, heart, poetry
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  • #6
    “Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.”
    ― Whoopi Goldberg
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    Alice Walker
    “What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: ignorance, superstition, understanding
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  • #8
    Bram Stoker
    “Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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  • #9
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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  • #11
    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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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #13
    Aberjhani
    “A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
    to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”
    ― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
    tags: angel-poetry, bridges, faith, famous-quotes, famous-quotes-from-classic-books, healing, inspiration, inspiring-quotes, metaphysics, new-beginnings, new-year, perseverance, philosophy, poem-in-your-pocket-day, quotes-by-aberjhani, re-birth, rebirth, recovery, resurrection, spirituality, starting-over, visions, world-suicide-prevention-day
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  • #14
    Jodi Picoult
    “Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match
    tags: motherhood
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  • #15
    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    ― Plato
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  • #16
    Plato
    “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule
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