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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
― Paul McCartney

tags: beatles, vegetarianism

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#3

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

tags: education, feminism, men, women

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#4

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

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#5

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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#6

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

tags: books, reading, rights

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#7

“Silence is so freaking loud”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: just-listen, loud, owen, sara-dessen, silence

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#8

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

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#9

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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#10

“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

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#11

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

tags: knowledge

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#12

“You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

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#13

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

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#14

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

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#15

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

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#16

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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#17

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth

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#18

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

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#19

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion

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#20

“I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
― Nicholas Sparks, True Believer

tags: friends, moving-on, understanding

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#21

“The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.”
― Diane Von Furstenberg

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#22

“You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”
― Diane Von Furstenberg

tags: life, self-acceptance, self-esteem

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#23

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: inspirational, misattributed, self-acceptance, self-esteem

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#24

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem

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#25

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inner-peace, self-acceptance

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#26

“Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.”
― Kristan Higgins

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#27

“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: alone, content, privacy, refueling, reprive, restoration, solitude, weekend

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#28

“You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

tags: friends, judgement

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#29

“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: animals, attributed-no-source, friends, humor, vegetarianism

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#30

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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