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• The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Relationship, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational

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• We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)

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• Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Birthday, Peace, Age

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strength, Umpires, Justice

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

  Karl Kraus

  Motivational, Success, Strong

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

  Tacitus

  Gratitude, Revenge, Men

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• In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Photography, Adversity

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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  Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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• A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

  Chuck Jones

  Hungry Lion, Together, Lions

  Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.166, Macmillan

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• If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

  Erich Fromm

  Self Esteem, Criminal Mind, Ifs

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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• In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Games, Chess Game

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• No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

  George Chakiris

  Love, Hope, Recovery

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• These violent delights have violent ends.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Romeo And Juliet Love, Delight

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.5, l.9.

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  I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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• What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fathers Day, Son, Daddy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.83, Vintage

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• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Marriage, Missing You

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Growing Up, Suicidal

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1972.

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• Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

  Albert Einstein

  Humorous, Men, Enemy

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Spiritual, Courage

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

  Eric Schmidt

  Humanity, Criminals, Criminal Mind

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• There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Criminals, Relief, Criminal Mind

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• It's love that makes the world go round.

  W. S. Gilbert

  World, Criminal Mind, Rounds

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.504, Oxford University Press

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