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    Rudyard Kipling
    “If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;!”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son
    tags: advice, ataraxy, coming-of-age, fathers-and-sons, philosophical
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    Bob Marley
    “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Nora Roberts
    “Good fiction creates its own reality.”
    ― Nora Roberts, The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex
    tags: writing
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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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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    Maya Angelou
    “I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
    9139 likes

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    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    ― A.J. Cronin
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Mary Hunter Austin
    “If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.”
    ― Mary Austin, The Land of Journeys' Ending
    tags: travel
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, intelligence, wisdom
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
    tags: curiosity, epigram, tabloid-journalism, wisdom
    1474 likes

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    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
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    Rose Wilder Lane
    “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
    ― Rose Wilder Lane
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, time
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: responsibility
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    Nora Roberts
    “She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration. ”
    ― Nora Roberts, Key of Knowledge
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    Upton Sinclair
    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
    ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
    tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    William Golding
    “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    Norman Vincent Peale
    “Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”
    ― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking
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    Norman Vincent Peale
    “When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.”
    ― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking
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    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: attributed, attributed-no-source, education, intelligence, knowledge, unsourced
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    Lisa Scottoline
    “How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
    The patients get better and leave.”
    ― Lisa Scottoline , Every Fifteen Minutes
    tags: humor, medicine
    496 likes



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