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    H.L. Mencken
    “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, In Defense of Women
    tags: politics, propaganda
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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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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127100 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92159 likes

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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
    114361 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Bil Keane
    “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
    42759 likes

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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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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4082 likes

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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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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13880 likes

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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
    60257 likes

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    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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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: inspirational, journalism, myth, story, truth-telling
    416 likes

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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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    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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    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas-fils
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Woody Allen
    “I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
    ― Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader
    tags: life
    999 likes

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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;!”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son
    tags: advice, ataraxy, coming-of-age, fathers-and-sons, philosophical
    444 likes

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    Terry Jones
    “What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.”
    ― Terry Jones
    tags: bush, bushism, grammar, politics, terrorism
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    Archimedes
    “Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth”
    ― Archimedes
    tags: geometry, physics
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: defeat, victory, war
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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
    31236 likes

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  • #27
    “Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.”
    ― Werner Erhard
    tags: being, existence, reality, truth
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: non-conformity, rules
    1255 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: classics
    1889 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
    26199 likes



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