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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Shelby Foote
    “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
    ― Shelby Foote
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    Diana Dempsey
    “One of the floral arrangements swayed like a drunken sailor, then toppled, clattering to the floor.”
    ― Diana Dempsey, Falling Star
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Mae West
    “I'm single because I was born that way.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: bachelorhood, choice, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, self-determination, singleness, singles
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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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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    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    ― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
    tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne
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    Mae West
    “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: women
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    Cassandra Clare
    “In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: choices
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: choices, crowd, individuality, life
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
    'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
    'I don't much care where -' said Alice.
    'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
    '- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
    'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: choices, life-decisions
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    John Green
    “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: inspirational
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    Anthony Bourdain
    “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
    ― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
    tags: cooking, food, vegetarian
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    “Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.”
    ― Robert Redford
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    Jarod Kintz
    “Sometimes I feel I’m just doing a poor impression of a person. Maybe I feel this way because I have no money.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need”
    ― Thomas Aquinas
    tags: poor
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
    tags: inspirational
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
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    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: rah
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    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: katharine-hepburn
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    Katharine Hepburn
    “What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”
    ― Katharine Hepburn
    tags: chocolate
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    Katharine Hepburn
    “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
    ― Katherine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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