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    Harry Harrison
    “Every day should be unwrapped as a gift.”
    ― Harry Harrison
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.

    [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: books, censorship, freedom-of-thought, libraries
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    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [Remarks on the first
    “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

    [Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: peacefulness, political-rights, protest, revolution, violence
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: gratitude
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    Paul Newman
    “A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”
    ― Paul Newman
    tags: character, enemies
    366 likes

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    Paul Newman
    “We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.”
    ― Paul Newman
    tags: buddhism, environment, farmer, inspirational, sainthood, sustainability
    107 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: insanity, misattributed, perseverance, sanity
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: scars, souls, suffering
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    Rodney Dangerfield
    “I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.”
    ― Rodney Dangerfield
    tags: crime, funny, humour, neighborhoods
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    Jerry Seinfeld
    “If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
    ― Jerry Seinfeld
    tags: books, funny
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    Rodney Dangerfield
    “Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.”
    ― Rodney Dangerfield
    tags: crime, funny, humour
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    Jon Stewart
    “If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American -- our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.”
    ― Jon Stewart
    tags: ashcroft, civil-rights, funny, patriot-act
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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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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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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
    29964 likes

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    Woody Allen
    “Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: art, humor, life
    2457 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    John Steinbeck
    “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: conflict, politics, war
    2074 likes

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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
    3314 likes

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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu
    tags: class-struggle, war
    1181 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    George Steiner
    “We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can
    play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the
    morning.”
    ― George Steiner
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  • #23
    “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
    ― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein
    tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words
    2473 likes



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