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    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Robert Frost
    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
    ― Robert Frost
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    Walt Disney Company
    “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
    ― Walt Disney
    tags: inspirational
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: truth
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    Anne Frank
    “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Douglas Adams
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: humor, perspective, science
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    Helen Keller
    “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: by-anne-sullivan, emotions, feelings
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    Aristotle
    “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: friendship, soul
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    Steven Wright
    “Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
    ― Steven Wright
    tags: amnesia, humor, memory
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    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor, taste
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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Try a little harder to be a little better.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    ― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
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    Maya Angelou
    “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination
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    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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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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    Mark Twain
    “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: morals
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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