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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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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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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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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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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
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    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
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    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational
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    Max Eastman
    “A smile is the universal welcome.”
    ― Max Eastman, The Sense of Humor
    tags: smile, welcome
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    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    ― Alan Alda
    tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind
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    Carol Ryrie Brink
    “The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”
    ― Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn's Family
    tags: generosity, giving
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    Jean Fritz
    “When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”
    ― Jean Fritz
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    Jean Racine
    “Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
    ― Jean Racine
    tags: comedy, emotions, feeling, life, thinking, tragedy
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    Italo Svevo
    “You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide. ”
    ― Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience
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  • #22
    “Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.”
    ― Ossie Davis
    tags: art, power
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    Muriel Rukeyser
    “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
    ― Muriel Rukeyser
    tags: craft, inspirational, muriel-rukeyser, writers
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    Sarah E. Wright
    “Shades of a new morning standing still are worse than the shades of night. At least a person can understand the dark of night. It’s not fickle like the day.”
    ― Sarah E. Wright, This Child's Gonna Live
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    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
    “Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.”
    ― Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
    tags: advice, stars
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    Joyce Cary
    “To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”
    ― Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth
    tags: a-new-world, forgetting, forgiveness, genius, gulley-jimson, heart-beats, truth
    518 likes

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    Candace Bushnell
    “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
    tags: love, relationships
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    Marc Brown
    “Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.”
    ― Marc Brown
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    Peter F. Drucker
    “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
    ― Peter Drucker
    tags: knowldege
    816 likes

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  • #30
    Christopher Paolini
    “Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.”
    ― Christopher Paolini
    tags: christopher, paolini
    835 likes



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