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    Harriet Tubman
    “I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.”
    ― Harriet Tubman
    tags: inspirational
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    Robert Frost
    “Freedom lies in being bold.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: boldness, courage, freedom
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: books, literature, on-fiction
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  • #4
    Mae West
    “I'm single because I was born that way.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: bachelorhood, choice, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, self-determination, singleness, singles
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    Susan B. Anthony
    “Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
    ― Susan B. Anthony
    tags: bicycle, emancipation, women
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  • #6
    W.C. Fields
    “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: cooking, drinking, food, humor, wine
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    Brian Jacques
    “Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
    ― Brian Jacques, Taggerung
    tags: crying, emotion, emotions, flowers, fruit, growing, nature, sadness, sunlight, tears, trees, water
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    Ayn Rand
    “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Eckhart Tolle
    “To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them - while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #13
    Charles Dickens
    “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: animals, cruelty, mankind
    2707 likes

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  • #15
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."

    "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!”
    ― F. Scott Fitgerald
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  • #17
    Homer
    “Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”
    ― Homer, Iliad
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    Ayn Rand
    “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: freedom-of-thought, philosophy, politics, rights
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: philosophy
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.

    (There is no reality except in action.)”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
    tags: action, existentialism, handeln, inspirational, philosophy, reality
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    Kathy Lette
    “When you've been around as long as me, Lucy, you'll know that there are three types of sex... One - brand-new, kitchen-table sex. Two - bedroom sex. Then number three - hallway sex, when you pass each other in the hallway and say 'Fuck you.'" - Lockie”
    ― Kathy Lette, To Love, Honour and Betray
    tags: humour, relationships, sex
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    Booker T. Washington
    “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
    ― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
    tags: success
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    John Milton
    “And looks commercing with the skies,
    Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.”
    ― John Milton, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
    tags: beauty, nature, soul
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Reviews
    tags: passion, prose, soul, style, walter-pater, writing
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    Ginnetta Correli
    “A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or Ms. Using the term: Ma'am could piss her off. ”
    ― Ginnetta Correli
    tags: aging, death, humor, lady, life, woman
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    Oscar Wilde
    “One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: dickens, uncle-tom-s-cabin, victorian, wilde, witty
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    Charles Dickens
    “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
    Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
    ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Inventory:

    "Four be the things I am wiser to know:
    Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
    Four be the things I'd been better without:
    Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
    Three be the things I shall never attain:
    Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
    Three be the things I shall have till I die:
    Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
    tags: champagne, contentment, curiosity, doubt, envy, foes, friends, hope, idleness, inventory, knowledge, laughter, life, love, sorrow, sufficienty, superfluity, unattainable, values, wisdom
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  • #29
    Bette Davis
    “There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”
    ― Bette Davis
    tags: champagne, drinking
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  • #30
    Malcolm X
    “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
    ― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary
    tags: philosophy, politics
    4314 likes



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