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    Barbara Bush
    “War is not nice.”
    ― Barbara Bush
    tags: dumb, war
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: education, illiteracy, journalism, literature
    1072 likes

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    Pearl S. Buck
    “A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. ”
    ― Pearl Buck
    tags: marriage
    186 likes

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    Arnold Lobel
    “Books to the ceiling,
    Books to the sky,
    My pile of books is a mile high.
    How I love them! How I need them!
    I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
    ― Arnold Lobel
    tags: books, reading
    1832 likes

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    René Descartes
    “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: doubt, truth
    720 likes

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  • #6
    Euripides
    “The wisest men follow their own direction.”
    ― Euripides
    tags: wise
    149 likes

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    Anatole Broyard
    “There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. ”
    ― Anatole Broyard
    tags: children
    21 likes

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  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
    7354 likes

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  • #9
    D.H. Lawrence
    “It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
    tags: heart, life, religion, tradition
    195 likes

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  • #10
    Dan Rather
    “Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.”
    ― Dan Rather
    tags: cars, commuting, complacency, driving, roads, speed, time, traffic
    57 likes

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  • #11
    Plato
    “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: abilities, empowerment, equality, gender, instruction, jobs, men, skills, women, work
    820 likes

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  • #12
    Edmond de Goncourt
    “A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.”
    ― Edmond De Goncourt
    tags: art
    104 likes

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  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

    —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1955, curiosity, mystery
    6826 likes

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  • #14
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: diplomacy, militarism
    74 likes

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  • #15
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
    13229 likes

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  • #16
    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    ― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne
    11393 likes

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  • #17
    Osho
    “Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.”
    ― Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
    tags: courage, daring, experience-mistakes-wisdom, live-life, live-life-to-the-fullest
    133 likes

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  • #18
    “Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”
    ― Michael Landon Jr.
    tags: death, life, live-life, procrastination
    79 likes



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