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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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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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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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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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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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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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    Danny Wallace
    “The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.”
    ― Danny Wallace
    tags: optimism
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
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    William Faulkner
    “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: inspirational, perfectionism, personality, potential, self-improvement
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    Wayne W. Dyer
    “Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.”
    ― Wayne W. Dyer
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    Aphra Behn
    “There is no sinner like a young saint.”
    ― Aphra Behn
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    V.S. Naipaul
    “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
    ― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: greatness, insanity, intelligence, sanity
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: god, humor, life
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I don't want to die without any scars.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: death, scars, tyler-durden
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: life
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: identity
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The things you used to own, now they own you.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: own, things
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: fight-club, inspirational, tyler, tyler-durden
    1964 likes

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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Silence is sometimes the best answer”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
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