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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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    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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    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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  • #4
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #5
    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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  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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  • #7
    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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  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #9
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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  • #10
    Chris Crutcher
    “So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .”

    “Because experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There’s only one thing that’s universal.”

    “What’s that?”

    “The truth.”
    ― Chris Crutcher, Deadline
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  • #11
    Mitch Albom
    “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: death, life
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  • #12
    Mitch Albom
    “No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.”
    ― Mitch Albom
    tags: connectedness, inspirational, interdependence
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    Mitch Albom
    “Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.”
    ― Mitch Albom
    tags: family
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    Mitch Albom
    “Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
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    Mitch Albom
    “The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
    tags: life-death
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    Mitch Albom
    “Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    tags: mitch-albom
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  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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  • #19
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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  • #20
    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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  • #21
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
    tags: inspirational
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  • #22
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational-faith
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  • #23
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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  • #24
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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  • #25
    Muhammad Ali
    “Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”
    ― Muhammad Ali
    tags: racism
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  • #26
    Barack Obama
    “In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: challenge, change, civic-responsibility, patriotism, trial
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  • #27
    Barack Obama
    “We are the change we have been waiting for.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: carpe-diem, change
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  • #28
    Barack Obama
    “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: america, history, hope
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  • #29
    Hillary Rodham Clinton
    “Every child needs a champion.”
    ― Hillary Rodham Clinton
    tags: children, vision
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  • #30
    Hillary Rodham Clinton
    “It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one”
    ― Hillary Rodham Clinton, Civiliser la démocratie
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