Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
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Nicolas Chamfort
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
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Kahlil Gibran
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and...
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Stephen Hawking
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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William Shakespeare
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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Malcolm X
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