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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days
    tags: foolishness, inspirational
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    John Burroughs
    “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
    ― John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature
    tags: life, opportunity
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: sex-appeal, women
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: fairy-tales
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    Edith Sitwell
    “I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
    ― Edith Sitwell
    tags: catfish, eccentricity, eels, fish, individuality
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    “I'd rather be a little weird than all boring.”
    ― Rebecca McKinsey
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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings
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    Louis C.K.
    “I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”
    ― Louis C.K.
    tags: advice, bored, boredom, inspirational, reprimand, young
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    Susan Cain
    “...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.”
    ― Susan Cain
    tags: boredom, inner-life, introversion, loneliness, strengths
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: funny
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    George Carlin
    “That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
    ― George Carlin
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    Wendy Mass
    “Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
    All the time.”
    ― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
    tags: flotsam, funny, humor, jeremy-fink, jetsam, keys, lizzy, wendy-mass, what-i-always-think
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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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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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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    Paulo Coelho
    “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: wisdom
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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
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    Marjorie Pay Hinckley
    “The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
    ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley
    tags: humour, wisdom
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    Robert Orben
    “Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
    ― Robert Orben
    tags: humour, politics, truth
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: humour, life
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness
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    Robert Frost
    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: education
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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
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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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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78418 likes



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