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#1

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

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#2

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#4

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, temptation

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#5

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

tags: women

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#6

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
― Mae West

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#7

“When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”
― Mae West

tags: goodness, sexuality, virtue

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#8

“I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
― Mae West

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#9

“Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.”
― Mae West

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#10

“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
― Mae West

tags: complacency, morality, surprise

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#11

“Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.”
― Mae West

tags: funny

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#12

“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
― Mae West, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

tags: bachelorhood, double-entendre, empowerment, freedom, independence, institutions, marriage, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, singles

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#13

“It is better to be looked over than overlooked.”
― Mae West

tags: independent, strong-women, tough-lady

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#14

“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
― Mae West

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#15

“If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!”
― Mae West

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#16

“You are never too old to become younger!”
― Mae West

tags: maturity, paradox, poetry, story, story-telling, youthfulness

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#17

“I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
― Mae West

tags: inspirational, religious

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#18

“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
― Mae West

tags: chivalry, men, protection, relationships, women

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#19

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#20

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#21

“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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#22

“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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#23

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#24

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#25

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed

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#26

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#27

“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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#28

“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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#29

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: 1929, viereck-interview

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#30

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#31

“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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