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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: death, love
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    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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  • #5
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: attributed-no-source, courage
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: inspirational, life, work
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
    tags: activism
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: adulthood, childhood
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Dr. Seuss
    “So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: editing, on-writing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
    tags: polite
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    Albert Einstein
    “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inspirational, lifelong-learning
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    Jane Austen
    “No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: jane-austen, literature, love, northanger-abbey
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    Steven Wright
    “Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
    ― Steven Wright
    tags: humor, perspective, walking
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    Mark Twain
    “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
    tags: travel
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    John Lennon
    “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: god, organized-religion, religion, spirituality
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Though much is taken, much abides; and though
    We are not now that strength which in old days
    Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
    One equal temper of heroic hearts,
    Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
    To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
    tags: age, heroism, poetry, ulysses
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    Fred Rogers
    “At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.”
    ― Fred Rogers
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    Walt Whitman
    “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
    ― Walt Whitman
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: fact
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
    tags: life, love
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
    tags: not-alone
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