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#1

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

Cesar Chavez
Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984 ”
― Cesar Chavez

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“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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#3

“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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#4

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#5

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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#6

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

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#7

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#8

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#9

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: attributed-no-source

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#10

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

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#11

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed

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#12

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#13

“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add

tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work

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#14

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

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#15

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

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#16

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#17

“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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#18

“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa

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#19

“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
― Mother Teresa

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#20

“The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith

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#21

“If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”
― Mother Teresa

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#22

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: happiness

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#23

“Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.”
― mother teresa

tags: love

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#24

“The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.”
― Cesar Chavez

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#25

“You are never strong enough that you don't need help.”
― Cesar Chavez

tags: help, strength

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#27

“Love is not finding someone to live with. It's finding someone you can't live without.”
― Rafael Ortiz

tags: love

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#28

“Sometimes you brush against a truth, feeling it before you can say it, and instead of theories or conclusions, tears are the evidence it leaves.”
― Dianna Ortiz

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#29

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”
― Pat Monahan

tags: humor, immature, young

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#30

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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#31

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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