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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life
    tags: decisiveness, fear, inaction, just-do-it, risk, timidity, wisdom
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    Azar Nafisi
    “Is it possible to write a reverent novel," said Nassrin, "and to have it be good?...”
    ― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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    James Dyar
    “See! That’s hero material. But relax. I’m here to save you. Or kill you. Or kill you by saving you. With heroes, you can never really be sure.”
    ― James Dyar
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    James Dyar
    “Tool use up until this point was questionable, intelligence too. Oh look, one is about to get eaten,” Chimera said expressionlessly.”
    ― James Dyar
    tags: eaten
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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    William Carlos Williams
    “If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.”
    ― William Carlos Williams
    tags: poetry
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    Mark Twain
    “He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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    Thomas Fuller
    “Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.”
    ― Thomas Fuller
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    Georges Jacques Danton
    “Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"

    (We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring!)

    [Assemblée legislative, Paris; Sept. 2, 1792]”
    ― Georges Jacques Danton
    tags: audacity, daring
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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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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    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    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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    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
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
    tags: morality, philosophy
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    Homer
    “For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.”
    ― Homer
    tags: breaking, man, odysseus, odyssey, sailing, sailor, sea, suffer, suffering
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    Homer
    “But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it.”
    ― Homer, The Odyssey
    tags: adventure, epic, epic-greece, greece, greek, odysseus, odyssey
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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