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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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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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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: happiness, inspirational
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ
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    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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    Sherwood Anderson
    “Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
    ― Sherwood Anderson
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    Caroline Gordon
    “A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
    ― Caroline Gordon
    tags: books, imagination, writing
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: inspirational, life, work
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism
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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Phyllis McGinley
    “A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
    ― Phyllis McGinley
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: dance, dancing, music
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    Zadie Smith
    “You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
    ― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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    Charles Dickens
    “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
    tags: humor, laughter
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    Joy Williams
    “She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
    ― Joy Williams
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    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
    ― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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    B.K.S. Iyengar
    “The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
    ― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life
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    Gail Carson Levine
    “In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine
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    Alan Alda
    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    ― Alan Alda
    tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Johnny Cash
    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
    ― Johnny Cash
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    Jenny Joseph
    “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.”
    ― Jenny Joseph, Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Yann Martel
    “It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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    Thurgood Marshall
    “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
    ― Thurgood Marshall
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    Anne Bradstreet
    “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
    ― Anne Bradstreet
    tags: authority, brute-force, force, oppression, wisdom
    1726 likes



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