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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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
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    William Shakespeare
    “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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    “No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”
    ― Christian Nestell Bovee
    tags: inspiration
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    John Churton Collins
    “If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.”
    ― John Churton Collins
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    Daniel Webster
    “There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession”
    ― Daniel Webster
    tags: inspirational
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  • #10
    “God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.”
    ― Thomas Deloney
    tags: devil, god, life
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    ― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
    tags: philosophy, wayfinding
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
    tags: war
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    C. Northcote Parkinson
    “Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”
    ― C. Northcote Parkinson
    tags: denial, life
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    Stuart Chase
    “For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”
    ― Stuart Chase
    tags: belief, god, life, religion
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    Tennessee Williams
    “We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
    tags: burning, fire, house, trapped, windows
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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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    Mark Twain
    “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: scars, souls, suffering
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    Helen Keller
    “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: motivational
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    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    Cory Doctorow
    “All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.”
    ― Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
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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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  • #25
    “Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.”
    ― James Anthony Froude
    tags: cousins
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    Jacques Rigaut
    “Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.”
    ― Jacques Rigaut
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    Albert Einstein
    “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: crazy, question, thought-provoking
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    Albert Pike
    “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
    ― Albert Pike
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    Voltaire
    “One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #30
    Elbert Hubbard
    “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: vacation
    150 likes



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