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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“Call me Ishmael.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“It was a pleasure to burn.”

“I am an invisible man.”

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

“It was love at first sight. The first time he saw her, he knew he was willing to die for her.”

“We were the people who were not meant to survive.”

“I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes

“To be is to do.” – Socrates

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“God is dead.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Everything that exists is born of chaos.” – Jean Baudrillard

“Hope is the passion for the possible.” – Søren Kierkegaard

“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Existence precedes essence.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” – Augustine of Hippo

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”

“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

“Great things never come from comfort zones.”

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“We are made of star-stuff.” – Carl Sagan

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” – Albert Einstein

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” – Carl Sagan

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” – Theodosius Dobzhansky

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We float on a hidden ocean of mystery.” – Brian Greene

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“To confine your attention to terrestrial matters will not prevent earth from moving around the sun.” – Galileo Galilei

“If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get far in our understanding of the physical world.” – James Jeans

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Teilhard de Chardin

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” – Carl Sagan

“Four score and seven years ago…” – Abraham Lincoln

“I have a dream.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy

“We shall fight on the beaches.” – Winston Churchill

“Give me liberty, or give me death!” – Patrick Henry

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong

“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” – John F. Kennedy

“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” – Nathan Hale

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.”

“I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.”

“I'm not lazy, I'm on energy-saving mode.”

“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”

“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin (probably)

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.”

“I put my phone in airplane mode, but it won’t take off.”

“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.”

“My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.”

“I’m not short. I’m concentrated awesome.”

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

“True leadership stems from individuality that is honest and authentic.” – Rosalind S. Helderman

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” – Peter Drucker

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasow

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis

“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going with them to get there.” – Ken Kesey

“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” – John C. Maxwell

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.” – Neil Gaiman

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.” – Georgia O'Keeffe

“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp

“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.” – Ray Bradbury

“Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes.” – Woodrow Wilson

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” – Edwin Land

“Here's looking at you, kid.” – Casablanca

“May the Force be with you.” – Star Wars

“You can't handle the truth!” – A Few Good Men

“I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.” – The Godfather

“There's no place like home.” – The Wizard of Oz

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” – Gone with the Wind

“I'll be back.” – The Terminator

“You talking to me?” – Taxi Driver

“Life is like a box of chocolates.” – Forrest Gump

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” – The Godfather Part II

“Why so serious?” – The Dark Knight

“I am your father.” – Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

“You must kill your darlings.” – William Faulkner

“Writing is rewriting.” – Ernest Hemingway

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” – Terry Pratchett

“A word after a word after a word is power.” – Margaret Atwood

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” – Louis L’Amour

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” – Mark Twain

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write.” – Stephen King

“Write what should not be forgotten.” – Isabel Allende

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.” – Anaïs Nin

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates (often misattributed in writing contexts)

“Good writers are both geniuses and drudges.” – Sue Grafton

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King