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• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Trying, Stories, May

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• Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Jobs, Hate, Kids

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• ...You know what I mean?

  Andrew McMahon

  Enlightening, Knows

  Song: When It Goes Down

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• I'm so mean I make medicine sick!

  Muhammad Ali

  Medicine, Sick

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 30, 2013

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• Today I will tell myself that I'm lovable. Just because some people haven't been able to love me in ways that worked doesn't mean that I'm unlovable. I've had lessons to learn, and some of them have hurt deeply, but I can still love, and I still am loved.

  Melody Beattie

  Hurt, People, Lessons

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• We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.500, Discovery House

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• Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving Up, Knowing, Deep Thought

  Twitter post from Jan 04, 2013

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• Being busy does not always mean real work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Real, Infinite Intelligence, Motivational Work

  Ford Times, Volume 6 (p. 136), 1912.

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• Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

  Thomas Paine

  Information, Language, Used

  Thomas Paine (2016). “The Writings of Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason”, p.86, Thomas Paine

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• I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Relationship, Long, Energy

  "The Last Song". Book by Nicholas Sparks, September 1, 2009.

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• Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Mean Girls, Funny Inspirational

  "Artifacts : An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley". Book by Christine Finn, 2001.

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• Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, People, Tolerance

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• We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Class, Humanity, Minus

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• Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.

  Stephanie Laurens

  Your Side, Romance, Forever

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• I think [“Shake It Off”] is awesome! It sticks in your head. I heard it one time and I was, like, singing it all day long! Of course she's gonna go and do a pop record if she wants to. She's an amazing writer so if she comes back tomorrow and says 'I'm gonna make a country record now', we'll listen to that and buy it too! I mean, it doesn't matter. I'm just proud of her for doing whatever art she wants to do; it's gonna be successful it's Taylor Swift! I have a lot of her material on my iPod and I bought the new single. I'm a supporter of hers.

  Miranda Lambert

  Country, Art, Successful

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• What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

  Stephen King

  Smart, People, Bloodlust

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 15, 2014

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• Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

  Esther Dyson

  Change, People, Perfect

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• 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean Girls, Use, Tone

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

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• We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.

  Neal Shusterman

  Ready

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly”, p.697, Simon and Schuster

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• We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

  Anneli Rufus

  Missing Someone, Distance, Thinking

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• Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology.

  E. Lockhart

  Sorry, Apology, Opposites

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.146, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

  Albert Einstein

  Law, Physics, Mathematics

  "Albert Einstein, 14 March, 1879-18 April 1955: A guide for the perplexed". Book by Albert Einstein, 1979.

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• Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the 'off' button is.

  Eric Schmidt

  Knowing, Worry, Buttons

  "The Charlie Rose Show", charlierose.com. March 6, 2009.

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• It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

  William Hague

  Ideas, Sail, Inevitable

  1998 In The Mail on Sunday,'Quotes of the Week', 11 Jan.

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