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    Benjamin Franklin
    “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success
    tags: knowledge
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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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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Albert Einstein
    “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adulthood, success, value
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    Alexander Graham Bell
    “A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.”
    ― Alexander Graham Bell
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    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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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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    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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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Confucius
    “Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”
    ― confucius
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  • #19
    “To love is to stop comparing.”
    ― Bernard Grasset
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: moral-courage
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
    tags: inner-voice
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    Adlai E. Stevenson II
    “It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than it is to live up to them.”
    ― Adlai E. Steveson
    tags: morality
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Brian Tracy
    “Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.”
    ― Brian Tracy
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  • #25
    “Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.”
    ― Robert Gilbert
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    Lou Holtz
    “You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”
    ― Lou Holtz
    tags: inspiration, motivation
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    Anthony Robbins
    “People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.”
    ― Tony Robbins
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: evil, good-intentions, morality
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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  • #30
    “When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.”
    ― Jared Sparks
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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