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#1

“What has happened to us in this country? If we study our own history, we find that we have always been ready to receive the unfortunate from other countries, and though this may seem a generous gesture on our part, we have profited a thousand fold by what they have brought us.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: immigration

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#2

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words

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#3

“A Three pronged test for any belief:
Can it be verified by the sights and senses of common people?
How is it to be applied?
Will it benefit the greatest number?

from Against Fate”
― Mozi, The Mozi: A Complete Translation

tags: chinese-philosophy, scientific-method

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#4

“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”
― Aristotle

tags: action, life, quality, virtue

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#5

“To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
― Marilyn vos Savant

tags: knowledge, observation, study, studying, wisdom

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#6

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: archeology, growing-older, marriage

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#7

“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

tags: democrats, liberal, politics

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#8

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: books

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#9

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

tags: life

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#10

“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: reading, simile

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#11

“When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.”
― Mark Twain

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#12

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: writing, writing-process

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#13

“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."

[Women Know Everything!]”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: bad-reviews, fancy, raisins, terrible, wordplay

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#14

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#15

“In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

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#16

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

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#17

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
― Frederick Douglass

tags: strength

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#18

“The Bronx? No Thonx!”
― Ogden Nash

tags: new-york-city

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#19

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

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#20

“The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.”
― E.B. White

tags: new-york-city

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#21

“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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#22

“The Empire State, a lonely dinosaur, rose sadly at midtown, highest tower, tallest mountain, longest road, King Kong's eyrie, meant to moor airships, alas.”
― Vincent Scully

tags: empire-state-building, new-york-city

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#23

“Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.”
― Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones

tags: equality

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#24

“Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.”
― O. Henry

tags: new-york-city

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#25

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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#26

“New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: new-york-city

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#27

“You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.”
― Bob Dylan

tags: life, music

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#28

“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.”
― Bessie Anderson Stanley, More Heart Throbs Volume Two in Prose and Verse Dear to the American People And by them contributed as a Supplement to the original $10,000 Prize Book HEART THROBS

tags: life, misattributed-to-emerson, success, widely-misattributed

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#29

“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”
― Fran Lebowitz

tags: new-york-city

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#30

“Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

tags: alienation-versus-humanity, human-behavior

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