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• So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

  Ayn Rand

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.315, Penguin

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• Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Humor, Cutting, Reality

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.11, Penguin

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• People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Animal, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Equality, Egalitarianism

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• The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wise, Humor, Want

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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  All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

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• Focusing on one's own purpose is a matter of considering what you want to do, why you want to do it, and how you will do it. Easy questions, but they do provide deep thought.

  John Baldoni

  Purpose, Easy

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• Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life Is

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.12, Macmillan

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• If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Earth, Shelter, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Brother's Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.692, e-artnow

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• Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

  Douglas Adams

  Mean, Answers, Said

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.119, Pan Macmillan

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• Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer doesn’t actually affect the external world. Not only is it ineffective, but it is also a very narcissistic practice… why would a 'God' change its 'Divine Plan' to accommodate any person’s wishes?

  David G. McAfee

  Prayer, Feel Better, Practice

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Jun 29, 2014

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• Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Achieve

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kenneth Lantz, Gary Saul Morson (1997). “Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876”, p.335, Northwestern University Press

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• Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.

  Holly Black

  Love, Hurt, Thinking

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humor, Good Luck, Hard Work

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.23

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• Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Faith, Humor

  'Odes' bk. 1, no. 9, l. 13

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• The secret to success is to subjugate your ego and serve others.

  Stuart Wilde

  Humor, Ego, Secret

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• I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Accomplishment, Effort

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• People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.

  Theodore Levitt

  People, Want, Holes

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• Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Character, World, Feels

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• How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Eye, Reflection, Self

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• When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its own answer to that question.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Answers, Young, Existence

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• I always thought death was cruel, a silent destroyer of breath, of hope, of life. Now I understand it is physical death, the perception of it, the fear of it, which often saves us; for death marks the end of our flesh causing us to question the future of what we are.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Perception, Flesh, Silent

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• It is most often not our strengths, our courage or our successes that bring two human hearts together, but it is often our shared vulnerability, our fears and our common failures that make us one.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Heart, Two, Together

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• I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life and noted all were too consumed on their own juggling act to see. This is when I learned to have fun, and kick the balls instead.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Fun, Balls, Circus

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• When I was younger I feared the dark, wondering what evil was watching me. Now it's different, for now it's a game of sneaking the light back on and laughing at how quickly the evil fleas.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Dark, Light, Games

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