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• Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

  Bob Marley

  Tattoo, Rasta, Slavery

  "Song: 'Uprising'". 1979.

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• As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.

  Chuck Norris

  Together Again, America, Fool Me Once

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• Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Fire, Waiting, Age

  Song: The Innocent Age, Album: The Innocent Age, 1981

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• Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

  Warren Buffett

  Easter, Eggs, Investment Success

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.13, Carolina Academic Press

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• Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.

  Bob Seger

  Tree, Victory, Watches

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• Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Wind, Live By

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

  Bob Dylan

  Forget, Left

  Song: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, 1965

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• The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

  Henry Rollins

  Lying, Stronger, Destructive

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• Follow the rules or follow the fools.

  Tupac Shakur

  Fool

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• The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

  Pete Townshend

  Facts

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• The hurt of a love that is lost has no cure but the love of another heart.

  Christopher Cross

  Hurt, Heart, Lost

  Song: Words Of Wisdom, Album: Another Page

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• Expand the mind, seek and you shall find.

  Killah Priest

  Mind

  Song: Tai Chi

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• The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

  Nick Hexum

  Swimming, Firsts, Chill

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• Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

  Bob Dylan

  Hours, Late

  'All Along the Watchtower' (1968 song)

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• Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

  Michael Peterson

  Men, Lazy Man, Pay

  Song: Drink, Swear, Steal and Lie

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• Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

  Elvis Presley

  Fame, Empty, Fortune

  Song: Fame and Fortune

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• It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.

  Sarah Kay

  Motivation, Inspiration, Writing

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• The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

  Robert Palmer

  Fighting, Men, Feet

  Song: Every Kinda People, Album: Double Fun

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• The heart says what only the heart knows.

  Lou Reed

  Heart, Knows

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.408, Da Capo Press

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• The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Fall, Doors, House

  Song: The House You Live In, Album: Summertime Dream

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• The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.

  Warren Zevon

  Hurt, Heart, Harder

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• The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown.

  Michael Jackson

  Recipes, Ingredients, Majors

  Song: Threatened, Album: Invincible, 2001

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• Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Dust

  Song: Only Love Would Know, Album: Waiting for You

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• Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

  Don McLean

  Needs, Deeds, Thread

  Song: Dreidel, Album: Don McLean

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• Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.

  Rakim

  Wise, Mind, Untouchables

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