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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Dr. Seuss
    “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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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: life
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    “A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
    tags: mind, new-ideas
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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    Dodinsky
    “Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.”
    ― Dodinsky, In the Garden of Thoughts: Be Your Best Self
    tags: inspirational
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    James McBride
    “Wilmington, Del. (AP) June 14, 1966—A fire that destroyed the city’s oldest Negro church has led to the discovery of a wild slave narrative that highlights a little-known era of American history. The First United”
    ― James McBride, The Good Lord Bird
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    Bill Watterson
    “CALVIN:
    This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery?
    If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it?
    And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this?
    HOBBES:
    I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday?
    CALVIN:
    Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: christmas, life, religion
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    Bob Hope
    “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
    ― Bob Hope
    tags: christmas
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    Phyllis Diller
    “Money's scarce
    Times are hard
    Here's your fucking
    Xmas card”
    ― Phyllis Diller
    tags: christmas, humour
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    Charles Dickens
    “Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
    tags: christmas-carol, laugh
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    “Christmas Gift Suggestions:
    To your enemy, forgiveness.
    To an opponent, tolerance.
    To a friend, your heart.
    To a customer, service.
    To all, charity.
    To every child, a good example.
    To yourself, respect.”
    ― Oren Arnold
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    “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”   -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993) American clergyman & writer”
    ― Christine J. Collins, Christmas Quotes: 129 Greatest Thoughts and Sayings About Christmas
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    “The American Congress votes through the Declaration of Independence, with John Adams proclaiming the date to stand in history as the founding of America in freedom. Nobody actually signs anything on 4 July, which was instead the date the printers finished the broadsheet versions for publication and so dated their work.”
    ― Graeme Donald, On This Day in History
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    Lemony Snicket
    “The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: bhie, history, library, tears
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: achievement, beauty, clichés, distinction, empowerment, gender, gentleness, greatness, history, intelligence, self-determination, stereotypes, women
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    Stephen Colbert
    “There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.”
    ― Stephen Colbert
    tags: history
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    H.G. Wells
    “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Carl Sagan
    “You have to know the past to understand the present.”
    ― Carl Sagan
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    Victor Hugo
    “Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: history, study
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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
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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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