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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
    ― Montaigne, Les Essais
    tags: books
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    Joan Didion
    “I don't know what I think until I write it down.”
    ― Joan Didion
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    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    ― Henry Ward Beecherr
    tags: books, humor
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    George Wier
    “There is no greater thrill in life than to find that you are not only useful, but that you can help, and that your help matters.”
    ― George Wier, The Last Call
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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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    R.C. Lewis
    “Just because you don't see something doesn't mean it isn't there. The stars are always there.”
    ― R.C. Lewis, Spinning Starlight
    tags: inspirational
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    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations
    tags: truth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom
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    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Never, never, never give in!”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: perseverance, wisdom
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    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder
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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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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
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    Roger Ebert
    “Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.”
    ― Roger Ebert
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    William T. Vollmann
    “So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.”
    ― William Vollmann
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    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    ― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
    tags: death-and-dying, inspirational, philosophy, poetry
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    Richard Dawkins
    “After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”
    ― Richard Dawkins
    tags: beauty, color, enlightened, inspirational, meaning, motivational, questions, sleep
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    David Quammen
    “Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.”
    ― David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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