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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
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    Dale Carnegie
    “A man convinced against his will
    Is of the same opinion still”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: 1936, misattributed-ben-franklin, paraphrasing-wollstonecraft, self-improvement, wisdom
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Five Orange Pips
    tags: escapism, music, sherlock-holmes, violin
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    Lang Leav
    “It was words that I fell for. In the end, it was words that broke my heart.”
    ― Lang Leav, Memories
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    “If not you, then who? If not now, when?”
    ― Hillel first- century Jewish scholar
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Greta Garbo
    “I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.”
    ― Greta Garbo, Garbo
    tags: dignity, freedom, privacy, respect, solitude
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    Coco Chanel
    “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: coco-chanel-face-fifty-life
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    Oliver Burkeman
    “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,” the English humorist and historian C. Northcote Parkinson wrote in 1955, coining what became known as Parkinson’s law. But it’s not merely a joke, and it doesn’t apply only to work. It applies to everything that needs doing. In fact, it’s the definition of “what needs doing” that expands to fill the time available.”
    ― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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    “A lesson without pain is meaningless. That's because no one can gain without sacrificing something. But by enduring that pain and overcoming it, he shall obtain a powerful, unmatched heart. A fullmetal heart.”
    ― Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 25
    tags: edward-elric, fma, fullmetal-alchemist, hiromu-arakawa
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    Frederick Buechner
    “You have to suffer in order to be beautiful.”
    ― Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets
    tags: suffering
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    Riley Sager
    “One time is an anomaly. Two times is a coincidence. Three times is proof.”
    ― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, flattery, gender, hypocrisy, independence, men, misogyny, rationality, reason, self-determination, self-sufficiency, social-norms, stereotypes, strength, women, women-s-rights
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, power, women, women-s-rights
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
    tags: despair, hope
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