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    David Philip Barash
    “Infants have their infancy; adults, adultery.”
    ― David P. Barash
    tags: adultery, faithfulness
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
    20997 likes

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    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78358 likes

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    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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #9
    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    “Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.”
    ― Harriet Beecher Stowe
    tags: common-sense, senisibility
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Woody Allen
    “Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”
    ― Woody Allen
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    Robert Frost
    “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: birthdays, growing-older, men-and-women
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    Stanley Baldwin
    “I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”
    ― Stanley Baldwin
    tags: gender, gender-stereotypes, men-and-women, trust
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
    tags: claire-fraser, historical-fiction, romance, scotland, time-travel
    3716 likes

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    Neil Strauss
    “Attraction is not an option. ”
    ― Neil Strauss
    tags: romance
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: grief, grief-inspirational, heartbreak, life, life-lessons, love, love-hurts, love-story, price-of-love, prices, romance, sad, sad-but-true, sadness, true-love
    2529 likes

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  • #22
    “I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.”
    ― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him
    tags: hurt, love, romance, teen, ya
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    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion
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    Jack Kerouac
    “My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    tags: failure, passion
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    William Shakespeare
    “Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
    That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: infatuation, love, passion
    2092 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Robert Fulghum
    “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things
    tags: hope, imagination, inspirational
    9219 likes

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    Shel Silverstein
    “If you are a dreamer come in
    If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
    A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
    If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
    For we have some flax golden tales to spin
    Come in!
    Come in!”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: dreamer, imagination, liar, make-believe, poetry, wisher, wishes
    3787 likes

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    Shel Silverstein
    “I will not play at tug o' war.
    I'd rather play at hug o' war,
    Where everyone hugs
    Instead of tugs,
    Where everyone giggles
    And rolls on the rug,
    Where everyone kisses,
    And everyone grins,
    And everyone cuddles,
    And everyone wins.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
    tags: poem
    1160 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
    10779 likes



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