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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: choice, happiness
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: confidence
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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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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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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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    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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    Gore Vidal
    “How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Julian
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    Gore Vidal
    “Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: ayn-rand, evil, greed, objectivism
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  • #10
    Gore Vidal
    “Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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  • #11
    Gore Vidal
    “The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: press
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  • #12
    E.M. Forster
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    ― E.M. Forster
    tags: living
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    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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  • #14
    Gore Vidal
    “Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Screening History
    tags: america, american-ts, americans, educated-voters, elections, hope, political-education, politics, vote
    661 likes

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    Anne Tyler
    “I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
    ― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
    tags: inspirational, love
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  • #16
    Anne Tyler
    “There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.”
    ― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
    tags: rain-sleep
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    Anne Tyler
    “Rose had a kitchen that was so completely alphabetized, you’d find the allspice next to the ant poison. She was a fine one to talk about the Leary men.”
    ― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
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    Agatha Christie
    “And suddenly one of those moments of intense happiness came to her--a sense of the loveliness of the world--of her own intense enjoyment of that world.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Hollow
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    Agatha Christie
    “...the real tragedy of life was that you got what you wanted...”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Hollow
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    John Muir
    “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
    ― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
    tags: nature, walking
    638 likes

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  • #21
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy
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  • #22
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I have drunken deep of joy,
    And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
    tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates
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  • #24
    Ovid
    “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
    ― Ovid
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