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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
    tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Giorgio Vasari
    “These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.”
    ― Giorgio Vasari
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    Marvin Bell
    “Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
    ― Marvin Bell
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    Stephen Greenblatt
    “I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
    ― Stephen Greenblatt
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    Sharon Olds
    “There is something in me maybe someday
    to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
    and folded, like a note in school.”
    ― Sharon Olds
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    Brian Selznick
    “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
    ― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
    tags: dreamers, magic, mermaids, travel, wizard
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    Beatrix Potter
    “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
    ― Beatrix Potter
    tags: writing
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    Nawal El Saadawi
    “Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
    ― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
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    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    ― Herbert Bayard Swope
    tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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