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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"
- Ghandi
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
"Love with all your hearts and never forget
"The important thing is to never stop questioning."
"The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong."
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
"We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more."
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." - Anatole France
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be."
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
"The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do."
"When all think alike, no one is thinking very much."
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordly evidence of the fact."
"A classic is a book which people praise and don't read."
"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; its owes you nothing; it was here first."
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I don't know what the value of words is to you. But words can inspire, bring meaning to emotion, or help you express yourself in a way that nothing else can. Or they could be just a big pile of bullshit like what I just said above. I suppose either way, that's for you to decide.
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