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    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: introspection, solitude
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Ellen Glasgow
    “There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.”
    ― Ellen Glasgow
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    Aldous Huxley
    “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
    tags: change
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: death, fear, inspirational
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    Walter Russell
    “Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.”
    ― Walter Russell
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    Bob Marley
    “Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: peace, soul, wealth, wisdom
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    Epictetus
    “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
    We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: attitude, composure, emotional, life, mental, reaction, response, situtation
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    Voltaire
    “Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
    tags: audiences, folly, fools, humor, readership, writing
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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    Voltaire
    “Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: books, reading
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    Voltaire
    “Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: compassion, ethics, peace, vegetarianism
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: beauty, genius
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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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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: henry-david-thoreau, speak-lovingly, the-understanding-heart
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    Aristotle
    “Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.”
    ― Aristotle
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    Aldous Huxley
    “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Nikola Tesla
    “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: invention, non-physical-phenomena, progress, science
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: causality, causation, cause-and-effect, chance, darwinism, inspirational, kalam-cosmological-argument, luck, naturalism, necessity, serendipity
    1091 likes

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    Fred Rogers
    “When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
    ― Fred Rogers
    tags: friends, friendship, love, peace
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    Alvin Toffler
    “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
    ― Alvin Toffler
    tags: futuristic
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
    And all the sweet serenity of books”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: books, learning, love, serenity
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life
    4269 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, live-in-the-moment, optimism, wonder
    2205 likes



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