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    “My life, my strength and my time are my greatest riches.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
    tags: capable, confidence, determined-spirit, educational-philosophy, encouragment, lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations, life, money, philosophy-of-life, positive, positive-thinking, possible, riches, self-love, strenth, success, time, wealth, word-of-wisdom, work, you-can
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    John Lennon
    “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
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    “If you can see all the beauty around you, you will also see it within.”
    ― Darren Paul Thorn
    tags: beauty-within
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    “Clever people enjoy saving gold and declares themselves as wealthy or very rich, but a wise person gives away and keep well away from it and declares themselves far richer than those people who saves it.”
    ― Darren Paul Thorn
    tags: wisdom
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    “To be rich with gold a person will have to be very clever, smart and very selfish to keep that golden wealth, but a true wise person knows it's not clever to have all that golden wealth because they believe in simply sharing.”
    ― Darren Paul Thorn
    tags: gold
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    “On the internet skin colour can not be seen, we are all one in this new dimension.”
    ― Darren Paul Thorn
    tags: internet
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    “Cats have no cares or time for your money, they just want loads of love, plenty of milk and food will keep them purring and extremely happy.”
    ― Darren Paul Thorn
    tags: happy-cats
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    “Being rich isn't much fun when mostly everyone else is begging around you.”
    ― Darren Paul Thorn
    tags: wealth
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    “So many people look forward to celebrating their Birthday only once a year when they should be celebrating everyday new as their big Birthday of being even older and a little wiser.”
    ― Darren Paul Thorn
    tags: celebrating-birthday
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    “Celebrate everyday like it was your birthday, because that is exactly what it really is.”
    ― Darren Paul Thorn
    tags: celebrate-life-not-one-day
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    “Birthdays are not once a year, but every new day.”
    ― Darren Paul Thorn
    tags: birthdays
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    “Life is a very magical gift, but it doesn't last long, so it's best to enjoy it whilst it last.”
    ― Darren Paul Thorn
    tags: life-magical
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    “The problem with most adults these days, they lose their wonderful imagination they used to have when being a child and take life far too seriously.”
    ― Darren Paul Thorn
    tags: adulthood-growing-up-philosophy
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    “Snow was falling,
    so much like stars
    filling the dark trees
    that one could easily imagine
    its reason for being was nothing more
    than prettiness.”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: beauty, nature, prettiness, snow, winter, winter-night
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    Jo Walton
    “There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”
    ― Jo Walton
    tags: appreciation, nature, sunrise, sunset
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    Chad Sugg
    “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
    ― Chad Sugg
    tags: autumn, encourage, fall, inspirational, life, love, nature, trees
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    Katherine Dunn
    “The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”
    ― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
    tags: lies, lying, truth
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    Thomas Hardy
    “People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    tags: discomfort, force-of-nature, marriage, matrimony, nature, pleasure, self-deception
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
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    Charles Darwin
    “If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
    ― Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
    tags: injustice, poverty, social-institutions, society
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    Wendell Berry
    “You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.”
    ― Wendell Berry
    tags: civilization, rebellion
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    Wendell Berry
    “Be joyful because it is humanly possible.”
    ― Wendell Berry
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
    ― Machiavelli Niccolo
    tags: political-theory, sociology
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli
    tags: daring, risk, success
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.”
    ― Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: political-philosophy
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    Larry Dossey
    “Our relatedness with other living forms provides us something we sorely need: a reverence for the life of all creatures great and small, and an expanded view of our place in nature–not as rulers over it, but as participants in it.”
    ― Larry Dossey, Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Approach
    tags: consciousness, inspiration, life, nature, wisdom
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