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  • #3
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Try a little harder to be a little better.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley
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    William Faulkner
    “Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: ashamed, honesty, yourself
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  • #8
    Jimi Hendrix
    “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: wisdom
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  • #9
    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, feminist, reading
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  • #10
    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    ― E. E. Cummings
    tags: death, life, poetry
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  • #11
    Will Rogers
    “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: advice, funny, reticence, silence
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  • #12
    Audrey Hepburn
    “I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: audrey-hepburn, perseverance
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  • #13
    Henry James
    “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: beauty, english, literature, summer
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  • #14
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13998 likes

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  • #15
    Augustine of Hippo
    “In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: inspirational, spiritual
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  • #16
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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  • #17
    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome
    1500 likes

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  • #18
    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
    ― Michelangelo
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  • #19
    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
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  • #20
    Nelson Mandela
    “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: personal-growth, self-discovery
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: mindset, perspective, purpose, tennis
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  • #22
    John Steinbeck
    “But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel
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  • #23
    John Steinbeck
    “Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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  • #24
    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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