Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

J. D. Salinger's Popular Quotes

It’s history. It’s poetry.

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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly

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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

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One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce th…

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The world is full of actors pretending to be human

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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

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