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#1

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#2

“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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#3

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

tags: inspirational

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#4

“I was a professor of penis, a connoisseur of cock, a devotee of dick, an epicure of erections. I had made it my life’s work to worship the male member. And what a member this one was.”
― Michael Murphy, Little Squirrels Can Climb Tall Trees

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#5

“I don't remember the moment I knew I was broken...but I do know the moment I began to feel fixed. It was the day the green eyed boy fell in love with me.”
― John Goode, Maybe With a Chance of Certainty

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#6

“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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#7

“If you fall down seven times, stand up eight.”
― A.L. Collins

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#8

“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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#9

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#11

“He came off so lost, which of course hit all my buttons because who doesn’t dream of finding an incredibly hot boy and fixing him? Straight guys may have cars and gadgets, but girls and gay boys, we like to fix broken boys.”
― John Goode, Distant Rumblings

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#12

“I realized I had moved from being a misfit in a culture I wasn’t a part of, to being a freak in a culture I was supposed to be in.”
― John Goode, The Boy Behind the Red Door

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#13

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: excellence, inspirational

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#14

“It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.”
― Vince Lombardi

tags: inspirational

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#15

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: travel

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#16

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
― Booker T. Washington

tags: oppression, slavery

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#17

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

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#18

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

tags: misattributed-to-confucius, success

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#19

“You just can't beat the person who won't give up”
― Babe Ruth

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#20

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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#21

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#22

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#23

“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change [which] led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.”
― Lynn Margulis

tags: darwinism, evolution, macro-evolution, macroevolution, natural-selection, speciation

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#24

“Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.”
― Lynn Margulis, What Is Life?

tags: gaia-hypothesis, science

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#25

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

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#26

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: books, literacy, reading

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