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    Emery Lee
    “... never engage to play with a troubled mind or excited emotions. Lucidity of mind is crucial and once once's emotions become engaged in the play all is lost.....”
    ― Emery Lee, Fortune's Son
    tags: educational, philisophical, romance-novel
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    Victor Hugo
    “These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Ernest J. Gaines
    “I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.”
    ― Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
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    Margaret Mallory
    “Some men are honorable because of the example set for them, others, choose to be honorable in spite of it”
    ― Margaret Mallory
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    Kathryn Stockett
    “I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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    Thomas Szasz
    “Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
    ― Thomas Szasz
    tags: humor, inspirational
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    Thomas Szasz
    “When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him..”
    ― Thomas Stephen Szasz
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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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    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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    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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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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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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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Walt Whitman
    “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: poetry
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    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    ― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy
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    Albert Einstein
    “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
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    Willa Cather
    “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
    ― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: inspirational, mistakes
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
    tags: common-sense
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: humorous
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs
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    “Are you listening or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?”
    ― Robert Montgomery
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: anne, lm-montgomery
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    “Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
    ― Sam Montgomery
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “To dispair is to turn your back on God.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
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    Confucius
    “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: foolishness, other-people
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “The best revenge is living well without you. ”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, ed.
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