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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
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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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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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    ― Helen Keller
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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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    John Lennon
    “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    George Plimpton
    “I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.”
    ― George Plimpton
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  • #18
    “Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
    ― Jonathan Kellerman
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    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    ― Charlaine Harris
    tags: books-vacation
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    Judy Blume
    “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy
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    Judy Blume
    “[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.”
    ― Judy Blume
    tags: books, censorship
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    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    ― Agatha Christie
    tags: inspirational
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    Agatha Christie
    “A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

    -The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Hound of Death and Other Stories
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    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
    tags: love
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    Agatha Christie
    “I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party
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    Agatha Christie
    “One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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    Agatha Christie
    “But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
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    Agatha Christie
    “Time is the best killer.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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    Agatha Christie
    “One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
    ― Agatha Christie
    tags: reflection
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    Elizabeth Peters
    “No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
    ― Elizabeth Peters
    tags: amelia-peabody, men, women
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    Elizabeth Peters
    “Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.”
    ― Elizabeth Peters, The Serpent on the Crown
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