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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: troubles
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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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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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    John Newton
    “I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am”
    ― John Newton
    tags: i-am, inspirational
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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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    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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    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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    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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    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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    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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    Mother Teresa
    “Live simply so others may simply live.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa
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    Katharine Hepburn
    “We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
    tags: change, life, self
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Julia Child
    “The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
    ― Julia Child
    tags: dieting, diets, eating, food, joy-of-life, steak
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    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
    tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
    tags: friendship
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: life
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    Jen Lancaster
    “I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement.”
    ― Jen Lancaster, Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer
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    Jen Lancaster
    “I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.”
    ― jen lancaster
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: inkheart
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
    tags: inspirational
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