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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Nelson Mandela
    “I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: atonement, saints, sin, sinners
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Robert M. Sapolsky
    “I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”
    ― Robert Sapolsky
    tags: music, science
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    Kālidāsa
    “Yesterday is but a dream,
    Tomorrow is only a vision.
    But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”
    ― Kālidāsa, The Complete Works of Kalidasa, Vol. 1: Poems
    tags: hope
    838 likes

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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: faith, god, wisdom
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    Pema Chödrön
    “The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.”
    ― Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81807 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: drama, humor, plays
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Nelson Mandela
    “A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: education, goodness, intelligence, kindness, scholarship
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    Nelson Mandela
    “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
    ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
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    Nelson Mandela
    “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: personal-growth, self-discovery
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: classic-insult, humor, intelligence, people, stupidity
    943 likes

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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I always advise people never to give advice.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: advice
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    tags: book, hunger, weapon
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  • #20
    David Foster Wallace
    “Yes, I'm paranoid — but am I paranoid enough?”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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