“I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.”
— Anna Quindlen
Author: Anna Quindlen
Category: strength
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“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.”
— Franz Kafka
Author: Franz Kafka
Category: time
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“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Category: truth
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“The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.”
— Lech Walesa
Author: Lech Walesa
Category: positive
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“I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.”
— Harold Pinter
Author: Harold Pinter
Category: intelligence
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“You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.”
— Edward Coke
Author: Edward Coke
Category: trust
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“What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.”
— Hermann Hesse
Author: Hermann Hesse
Category: nature
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“I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.”
— Shahrukh Khan
Author: Shahrukh Khan
Category: smile
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“I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.”
— Shahrukh Khan
Author: Shahrukh Khan
Category: smile
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“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”
— Bertrand Russell
Author: Bertrand Russell
Category: respect
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“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.”
— Kinky Friedman
Author: Kinky Friedman
Category: money
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