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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
    18208 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, politics
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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, inspirational
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    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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    Edward O. Wilson
    “We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
    ― E.O. Wilson
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    Edward O. Wilson
    “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
    ― Edward O. Wilson
    tags: crisis, emotions, flaws, human-beings, humanity, humans, institutions, people, problems, technology
    377 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
    ― Tagore
    tags: joy, service
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    Jim Rohn
    “The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.”
    ― Jim Rohn
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    Alphonse Karr
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
    ― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden
    tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns
    2353 likes

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    Meister Eckhart
    “If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”
    ― Meister Eckhart
    tags: gratitude, prayer
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    Jim Rohn
    “We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
    ― Jim Rohn
    tags: life
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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “Always place your becoming above your current being.”
    ― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
    tags: inspirational, motivation
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    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    Stephen Jay Gould
    “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
    ― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
    tags: opportunity
    758 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: communication, misattributed, misunderstanding
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    “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: dread, liberty, responsibility
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Edward O. Wilson
    “You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.”
    ― E.O. Wilson
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    Edward O. Wilson
    “You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.”
    ― Edward O. Wilson
    tags: involvement, learning, memory, teaching, understanding
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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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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
    42227 likes



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