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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    Richard M. Nixon
    “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”
    ― Richard Nixon
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    Richard M. Nixon
    “I know you think you believe you understand what you thought I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is exactly what I meant.”
    ― Richard Nixon
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    Richard M. Nixon
    “Do you want to make a point or do you want to make a change? do you want to get something off your chest, or do you want to get something done?”
    ― Richard Nixon
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.”
    ― Leonardo Da Vinci
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
    succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: honesty, honor, integrity, moral-courage, obligation, truth
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: knowing, urgency, willing
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    George Washington
    “Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.”
    ― George Washington
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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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    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: books, truth
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth
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  • #13
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House
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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
    “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, books
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: frienship, success
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    Alan M. Turing
    “Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”
    ― Alan Turing
    tags: movie-quotes
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    Alan M. Turing
    “Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
    ― Alan Turing
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor, taste
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  • #21
    Winston S. Churchill
    “We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
    tags: inspirational
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Arthur Golden
    “We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: geisha, life
    570 likes

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    Arthur Golden
    “Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: buddhism, common-sense, life, zen
    1401 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed, attributed-to-einstein-no-source, buddhism, religion, science, unsourced
    720 likes

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  • #27
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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  • #28
    Agatha Christie
    “I know enough of life to know that you can never judge any case on its outside merits.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot's Christmas
    tags: merits, value-of-life
    6 likes



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