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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
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    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness
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    John Muir
    “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: inspirational
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    John Muir
    “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
    ― John Muir
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    Jonah Lehrer
    “there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.”
    ― Jonah Lehrer
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    Jonah Lehrer
    “People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.”
    ― Jonah Lehrer
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    Jonah Lehrer
    “A lie told well is just as good as the truth.”
    ― Jonah Lehrer, How We Decide
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    Jane Austen
    “Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
    tags: deception, honesty, relationships, truth
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
    tags: travel
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: friend, honesty
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: courage, fear, leadership, strength
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
    tags: lies, silence
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters
    tags: foreigners, openmindedness, travel
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: life
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books
    tags: achievement, fulfillment, meaning-of-life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
    tags: family, food, thanksgiving
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.”
    ― Dale Carnegie
    tags: happiness
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: conscience, politics, right
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor
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    Abigail Adams
    “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
    ― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
    tags: feminism
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
    tags: fantasy, inspirational, writing
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