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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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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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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    “If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.”
    ― Bill Vaughan
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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    Norton Juster
    “...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.”
    ― Norton Juster
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    Norton Juster
    “Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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    Norton Juster
    “So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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    Norton Juster
    “Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--"
    "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.”
    ― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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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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    Robert Fulghum
    “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things
    tags: hope, imagination, inspirational
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;!”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son
    tags: advice, ataraxy, coming-of-age, fathers-and-sons, philosophical
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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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    Tom Stoppard
    “Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
    ― Tom Stoppard
    tags: attributed, inspirational
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    Tom Stoppard
    “We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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    Tom Stoppard
    “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.”
    ― Tom Stoppard
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    A.A. Milne
    “Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: wisdom
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    John Quincy Adams
    “Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.”
    ― John Quincy Adams
    tags: blood, cost, justice, white-men
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
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    Lance Armstrong
    “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
    ― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts
    tags: cancer, failure, inspiration, inspirational, pain, quitting
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    George Lucas
    “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
    ― George Lucas
    tags: inspiration, star-wars
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    Eberhard Arnold
    “Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. ”
    ― Eberhard Arnold
    tags: guidance, inspiration, teaching
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man is the cruelest animal.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man
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    Mae West
    “I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: inspirational, religious
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  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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