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    Adlai E. Stevenson II
    “It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
    ― Adlai E. Stevenson
    tags: horses, leadership, war
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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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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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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
    88253 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    ― Anne Bronte
    tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns
    3469 likes

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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “The beginning is always today.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft
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    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
    tags: love
    4677 likes

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    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    ― Gail Carson Levine
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: love
    9255 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
    12796 likes

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    Ken Kesey
    “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
    ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    tags: relationships
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, living, philosophy, women
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year
    4707 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    Wilkie Collins
    “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: afternoon, schedule, tea, toast
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
    tags: books, humor, reading
    4423 likes

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    Milan Kundera
    “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: heart, mind
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    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
    ― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
    tags: art
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “My heart is warm with the friends I make,
    And better friends I'll not be knowing,
    Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
    No matter where it's going.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry
    tags: friends, inspirational, train
    1264 likes

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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
    7241 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
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  • #31
    “Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.”
    ― Lady Gaga
    tags: beyonce, lady-gaga, mirror, trust
    3286 likes



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