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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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    Albert Camus
    “People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
    tags: judgement
    1399 likes

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    Katharine Graham
    “The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
    ― Katharine Graham
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    Winston Churchill
    “Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: planning, plans, plotting, process
    127 likes

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  • #5
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, religion
    5313 likes

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  • #6
    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history, humor, writing
    4563 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
    1655 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: fools, humility
    1240 likes

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  • #9
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: perseverance
    1086 likes

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  • #10
    Winston S. Churchill
    “The price of greatness is responsibility.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: inspiration, responsibility
    1079 likes

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  • #11
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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  • #12
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127134 likes

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  • #13
    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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  • #14
    Albert Camus
    “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
    93542 likes

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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60258 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69686 likes

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  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol
    tags: gogol, heroes, laughter, life, nikolai, tears
    1309 likes

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  • #19
    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    tags: books, literature, reading
    3536 likes

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  • #20
    Tami Hoag
    “We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
    ― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse
    tags: inspirational
    2080 likes



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