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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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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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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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    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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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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  • #14
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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  • #16
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “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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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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  • #21
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: chocolate, food, humor
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  • #29
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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  • #31
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
    23473 likes



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