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  • #213
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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  • #214
    Andrew Jackson
    “It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
    ― Andrew Jackson
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  • #215
    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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  • #216
    Marilyn Monroe
    “All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: beauty, girls
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  • #217
    Ally Condie
    “Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
    tags: truths
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  • #218
    A.A. Milne
    “Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
    "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
    "And he has Brain."
    "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
    There was a long silence.
    "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: brain, cleverness, humor, piglet, understanding, winnie-the-pooh
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  • #219
    Jodi Picoult
    “After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
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  • #220
    Gayle Forman
    “A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.”
    ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went
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  • #221
    Lemony Snicket
    “...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
    tags: crying
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  • #222
    Jen Lancaster
    “If you're anorexic, you're doing it wrong."

    I swat him with a dish towel. "No, no, I mean anorexics look in the mirror, and even if they're eighty pounds, they still see a fat girl. I'm a hundred pounds heavier than I was in high school, my veins are full of creme fraiche, and yet I look in the mirror, take in the hair and makeup, and think, Damn, baby, you fiiine.”
    ― Jen Lancaster
    tags: humor
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  • #223
    Jen Lancaster
    “I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.”
    ― jen lancaster
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  • #224
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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  • #225
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #226
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #227
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth
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  • #228
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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  • #229
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”
    ― Nietzsche
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  • #230
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.”
    ― Nietzsche, Friedrich
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  • #231
    Gregory Hartley
    “To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.”
    ― Gregory Hartley, I Can Read You Like A Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending With Their Body Language
    tags: men, women
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  • #232
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: wisdom, women
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  • #233
    Kristin Hannah
    “And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.”
    ― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane
    tags: humor, women
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  • #234
    “When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.”
    ― Helen Rowland, A Guide To Men: Being Encore Reflections Of A Bachelor Girl
    tags: humor, marriage, women, work
    215 likes

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  • #235
    Demetri Martin
    “I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...or a game of fake heart attack.”
    ― Demetri Martin
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  • #236
    Demetri Martin
    “Sort of' is such a harmless thing to say... sort of. It's just a filler. Sort of... it doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, sort of means everything. Like... after "I love you"... or "You're going to live"... or "It's a boy!”
    ― Demetri Martin
    tags: comedian, comedy, equivocation, funny, humor
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  • #237
    Audrey Hepburn
    “There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: sex-appeal, women
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  • #238
    “I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
    ― Madonna
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  • #239
    Bette Davis
    “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
    ― Bette Davis
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women
    6163 likes

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  • #240
    Margaret Atwood
    “We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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  • #241
    Hermann Hesse
    “To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do. ”
    ― Hermann Hesse
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  • #242
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
    22578 likes



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