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    Josh Billings
    “The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.”
    ― Josh Billings
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    Josh Billings
    “As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
    ― Josh Billings
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    Josh Billings
    “Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”
    ― Josh Billings
    tags: blunders, life, mistakes, success
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    Josh Billings
    “Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
    ― Josh Billings
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    Josh Billings
    “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well”
    ― Josh Billings
    tags: inspirational
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    Blaise Pascal
    “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

    (Letter 16, 1657)”
    ― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters
    tags: brevity, conciseness, correspondence, humor, letters, pithy, wit, writing
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    Blaise Pascal
    “I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: heaven, hell, intelligence, paradise, stupidity
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: falsehood, truth
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: hard-work, luck
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: principle, style
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    Montesquieu
    “I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.”
    ― Montesquieu, Persian Letters
    tags: christendom, civil-war, kingdom-of-christ, religious-violence, violence, war
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    Montesquieu
    “If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman...because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.”
    ― Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: inspirational, problems, worry
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: non-conformity, rules
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    Jonathan Lockwood Huie
    “Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.”
    ― Jonathan Lockwood Huie
    tags: forgive, forgiveness
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    Gautama Buddha
    “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
    ― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
    tags: inspirational
    2587 likes

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    Gautama Buddha
    “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
    ― Siddhārtha Gautama
    tags: wisdom
    718 likes

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    Gautama Buddha
    “If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
    ― Buddha
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    Gautama Buddha
    “There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
    ― Buddha
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”
    ― Buddha
    tags: mission, purpose, work
    1091 likes

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    Gautama Buddha
    “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
    ― Buddha
    tags: anger-management, buddha
    1301 likes

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    “You only lose what you cling to.”
    ― Guatama Buddha
    tags: attachment, buddhism
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    Gautama Buddha
    “What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.”
    ― Siddhārtha Gautama
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    Gautama Buddha
    “To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.”
    ― Siddhārtha Gautama
    tags: intellectual, knowledge, spiritual, truth, wisdom
    138 likes

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    Gautama Buddha
    “With our thoughts we make the world.”
    ― Buddha
    tags: inspirational
    273 likes

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    Gautama Buddha
    “Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.”
    ― Dhammapada
    tags: wisdom
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    Gautama Buddha
    “A man asked Gautama Buddha, "I want happiness."
    Buddha said, "First remove "I," that's Ego, then remove "want," that's Desire.
    See now you are left with only "Happiness.”
    ― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
    ― Henry Thomas Buckle
    tags: creativity, dreams, gossip, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, paraphrased
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
    11461 likes



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