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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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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
    148383 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92175 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93521 likes

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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
    42031 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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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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    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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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
    23456 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32150 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: life, regrets
    18613 likes

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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
    16940 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
    16290 likes

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  • #18
    Cormac McCarthy
    “See the child.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    tags: first-sentence
    22 likes

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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    tags: consent, existence, horror, knowledge, western
    1070 likes

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    Lawrence Clark Powell
    “Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
    ― Lawrence Clark Powell
    tags: communication
    213 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “These fragments I have shored against my ruins”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems
    tags: age, aging, fall, nostalgia, past
    379 likes

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  • #22
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: humor, inspirational, tyler-durden
    415 likes

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  • #23
    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: art, child, face, mother, nature
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    Marc Riboud
    “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
    ― Marc Riboud
    tags: beauty, life, photo, photograph, photography, photos, picture, pictures
    760 likes

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    Nikolai Gogol
    “Two turtle doves will show thee
    Where my cold ashes lie
    And sadly murmuring tell thee
    How in tears I did die”
    ― Nikolai Gogol
    tags: birds, crying, dead-souls, death, doves, loneliness, sad, whisper
    208 likes

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    Richard P. Feynman
    “There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.”
    ― Richard Feynman
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    George Carlin
    “The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
    ― George Carlin
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, cod, fish, humor, images, inspirational, photography
    235 likes

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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
    130137 likes



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