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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: future, optimism
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    Jules Verne
    “We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
    ― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: books, reading
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    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes
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    Terri Blackstock
    “time wasted is not always a waste of time.”
    ― Terri Blackstock, Seaside
    tags: thoughtful
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: motivational
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44336 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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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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  • #10
    “The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”
    ― Edward J. Stieglitz
    tags: inspirational
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abe, enemies, enemy, friend, friends, friendship, life, lincoln
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: humor
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: american-presidents, freedom, slavery, wisdom
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: desperation, misattributed, tenacity
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    Ulysses S. Grant
    “There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.”
    ― Ulysses S. Grant, Memoirs and Selected Letters
    tags: choice, determinism, freedom, will
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    Ulysses S. Grant
    “In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. Then he who continues the attack wins.”
    ― Ulysses S. Grant
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    Ulysses S. Grant
    “I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't.”
    ― Ulysses S. Grant
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    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, politics
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    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism, politics
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    Douglas Adams
    “The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
    To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
    To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: elections, hg2g, politics, rulers
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
    ― Ernest Benn
    tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems
    2003 likes

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    George Burns
    “Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
    ― George Burns
    tags: humor, politics
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: freedom, government, politics
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: banks, debt, deficit-spending, government, loans, political-science, politics
    1023 likes

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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: humor, politics, stupidity
    1647 likes

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    Thomas Jefferson
    “We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: politics
    735 likes

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    Shel Silverstein
    “If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
    You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew.
    And you must sew my holey socks,
    And soothe my troubled mind,
    And develop the knack for scratching my back,
    And keep my shoes spotlessly shined.
    And while I rest you must rake up the leaves,
    And when it is hailing and snowing
    You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk,
    And-hey-where are you going?”
    ― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
    tags: for-the-lolz, humor, marriage-advice, true-to-life
    100 likes



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