At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail.

Oscar Wilde

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Mark Twain

29 quotes

Albert Einstein

28 quotes

Marilyn Monroe

22 quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

19 quotes

Maya Angelou

17 quotes

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

16 quotes

Allen Klein

14 quotes

Anaïs Nin

11 quotes

Mahatma Gandhi

11 quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11 quotes

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

11 quotes

C.S. Lewis

10 quotes

Emily Dickinson

10 quotes

John Lennon

10 quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr.

10 quotes

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Albert Camus

9 quotes

Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

9 quotes

Charles Bukowski

9 quotes