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    Dale Carnegie
    “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
    ― Dale Carnegie
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    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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    Richard Ford
    “Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.”
    ― Richard Ford
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo
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    Saul Bellow
    “A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: manhood, maturity, strength-of-character
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    Erica Jong
    “Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: friendship, love, loyalty, marriage
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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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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
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    Saul Bellow
    “The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: death-and-dying, life-and-death, realization
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    Saul Bellow
    “The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: aging, wisdom
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    David Breashears
    “The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.”
    ― David Breashears, High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
    tags: hardship
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    Norman Ollestad
    “There is more to life than just surviving it. Inside each turbulence there is a calm -- a sliver of light buried in the darkness.”
    ― Norman Ollestad
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Po Bronson
    “Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.”
    ― Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Po Bronson
    “Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.”
    ― Po Bronson
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    Richard Dawkins
    “Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheist, child, faith, parental-love, parenthood, parents
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    Robert M. Pirsig
    “When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
    tags: atheism, god, religion
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    Jennifer Egan
    “I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all.”
    ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    Aristotle
    “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: happiness
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    Beatrix Potter
    “I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.”
    ― Beatrix Potter
    tags: heritage, influence, personality
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    James Baldwin
    “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: expectation, hope, life
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    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    ― Anne Bronte
    tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: happiness
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    Franz Kafka
    “In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “The beginning is always today.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Richard Wright
    “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
    ― Richard Wright, Native Son
    tags: self-realization
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