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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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  • #4
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #5
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114373 likes

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  • #7
    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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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #10
    “You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
    ― Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton
    tags: fantasy, movie-quote
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  • #11
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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  • #13
    If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
    “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
    ― Chinua Achebe
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    Christina Stead
    “Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.”
    ― Christina Stead, Miss Herbert (the suburban wife)
    tags: inspirational-life
    953 likes

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    Guillaume Musso
    “You'll stop hurting when you stop hoping.”
    ― Guillaume Musso, Seras-tu là?
    tags: hope, hurt
    279 likes

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    Guillaume Musso
    “When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.”
    ― Guillaume Musso, Will You Be There?
    tags: thoughts
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    Guillaume Musso
    “It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.”
    ― Guillaume Musso, Que serais-je sans toi?
    tags: love, timing
    249 likes

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  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    tags: freedom
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    tags: government
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  • #22
    Ned Vizzini
    “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: depression, sadness, suicide
    7077 likes

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  • #23
    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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  • #24
    Elbert Hubbard
    “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: silence, understand
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  • #25
    George Carlin
    “That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
    ― George Carlin
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  • #26
    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others
    3209 likes

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    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
    ― Leo Buscaglia
    tags: compassion, empathy, inspirational, listening
    1481 likes

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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: listening
    1632 likes

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  • #29
    Sarah Dessen
    “This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: listening
    1023 likes

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  • #30
    Zeno of Citium
    “We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
    ― Zeno of Citium, as quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
    tags: listening, listening-skills
    524 likes



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