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    Will Rogers
    “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational
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    “Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?”
    ― Frank Scully
    tags: misattributed-h-jackson-browne, misattributed-jimmy-carter, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-will-rogers
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    Will Rogers
    “All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: funny, humor, media
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    Will Rogers
    “We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.”
    ― will rogers
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    Will Rogers
    “Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: happiness, life-management
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    Will Rogers
    “Don't let yesterday take up too much of today”
    ― Will Rogers
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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    Dave Sim
    “Once a profound truth is seen, it cannot be unseen.”
    ― Dave Sim
    tags: cerebus, suentus-po
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    Gahan Wilson
    “When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.”
    ― Gahan Wilson
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    Will Rogers
    “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: success, temptation
    168 likes

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    Jean Fritz
    “When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”
    ― Jean Fritz
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    Jodi Picoult
    “If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: isolation, reality, solitude
    574 likes

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    Kurt Cobain
    “I don't care what you think unless it is about me.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: isolation, narcissism, opinion
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    “A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.”
    ― Will Cuppy
    tags: adjustment, alienation, hermits, isolation, recluses
    78 likes

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    Eric Hoffer
    “To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
    tags: alienation, anomie, belonging, the-true-believer
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    Edward Gorey
    “Mr Earbrass escaped from Messrs Scuffle and Dustcough, who were most anxious to go into all the ramifications of a scheme for having his novels translated into Urdu, and went to call on a distant cousin.”
    ― Edward Gorey, The Unstrung Harp
    tags: urdu
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    Heinrich Heine
    “We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”
    ― Heinrich Heine
    tags: life, philosophy, revenge, wisdom
    773 likes

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    Brendan Behan
    “Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.”
    ― Brendan Behan
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    Dwight David Eisenhower
    “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
    tags: freedom, president, principles, privilege, society
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    Dwight David Eisenhower
    “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
    tags: planning, plans, strategy, war
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    Dwight David Eisenhower
    “If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. ”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
    tags: freedom, security
    235 likes

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    Dwight David Eisenhower
    “The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
    tags: blame, hunting, scapegoating
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    Dwight David Eisenhower
    “You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
    tags: leadership
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    Groucho Marx
    “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
    ― Ernest Benn
    tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems
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  • #26
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
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    J.M. Barrie
    “We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
    ― J.M. Barrie
    tags: failure, learning, moving-on, self-criticism, success
    1054 likes

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    L. Ron Hubbard
    “The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.”
    ― L. Ron Hubbard
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  • #30
    John Wayne
    “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
    ― John Wayne
    tags: bravery, courage
    781 likes



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