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“You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid…. You refuse to do it because you want to live longer…. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab you, or shoot at you or bomb your house; so you refuse to take the stand.

Well, you may go on and live until you are 90, but you’re just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: from-a-1968-sermon

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“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”
― Eartha Kitt

tags: love, relationships, self-love

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#3

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
― Henry Stanley Haskins

tags: awareness, life

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#4

“I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.”
― Eartha Kitt

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#5

“I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.”
― Eartha Kitt

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#6

“My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.”
― Eartha Kitt

tags: empowerment, feminism, inspirational

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#7

“I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.”
― Eartha Kitt

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#8

“The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.”
― Eartha Kitt, Thursday's Child

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#9

“I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.”
― Eartha Kitt

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#10

“We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a ❗☒”
― Eartha Kitt

tags: lgbt

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#11

“When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing—in tune!—and the audience loved it.

Eartha Kitt, when asked what tricks her poodle did.”
― Eartha Kitt

tags: animals, music

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#12

“We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a heterosexual.”
― Eartha Kitt

tags: lgbt

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#13

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#14

“A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.”
― Eartha Kitt

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#15

“Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.”
― Warren Buffett

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#16

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

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#17

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#18

“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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#19

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#20

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#21

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#22

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#23

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#24

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#25

“Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars

tags: burying, chi-ro-jin, head, invisibility, invisible, quotable, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, suffocation, wisdom, wisdom-quote

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#26

“Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

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#27

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination

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#28

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, self-determination

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#29

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: be-yourself, self-expression

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#30

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime

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