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#1

“Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.”
― Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul

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#2

“We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.”
― Earl Nightingale

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#3

“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”
― Swami Vivekananda

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#4

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.”
― Swami Vivekananda

106 likes

#5

“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

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#6

“I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”
― Nuruddin Farah

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#7

“The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.”
― Zlata Filipović

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#8

“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
― Toni Morrison

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#9

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

3120 likes

#10

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

tags: history

1894 likes

#11

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― Jose Marti

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

1777 likes

#12

“Study the past if you would define the future.”
― Confucius

tags: direction, future, history, learning, moving-forward, past, strategy

1474 likes

#13

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: history, misattributed-napoleon-bonaparte

1368 likes

#14

“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”
― Milan Kundera

tags: history, history-of-power, politics

979 likes

#15

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: history, lies, lying, propoganda, rewriting-history, self-deception

1145 likes

#16

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: america, history, immigration, politics, revolution, united-states, usa

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#17

“Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Bhagavad-gita

tags: eastern-philosophy, hindu, inspirational, religious, spirituality

181 likes

#18

“Religion means to know God and to love Him.”
― A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization

tags: religious

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#19

“Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:

"It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Nectar of Devotion: The Complete Science of Bhakti-Yoga

tags: chapter-30, india, krsna, philosophy, religion, spirituality

23 likes

#20

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

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