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Without consistency, you’ll never finish.", "author": "Denzel Washington", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 607, "text": "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.", "author": "Plutarch", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 564, "text": "It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.", "author": "Jony Ive", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 484, "text": "Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.", "author": "Vincent Van Gogh", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 542, "text": "Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.", "author": "Kurt Vonnegut", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 510, "text": "He who jumps owes no explanation to those who sit and watch.", "author": "Godard", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 37, "text": "A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 69, "text": "Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that is takes in.", "author": "Leonardo Da Vinci", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 338, "text": "Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who hasn't achieved much.", "author": "Joan Collins", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 44, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 23, "text": "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others.", "author": "Pericles", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 42, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 70, "text": "Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 105, "text": "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 96, "text": "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.", "author": "Charles Dickens", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 92, "text": "The meaning of life is to find your gift. 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