Misattributed Quotes

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“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
Unsourced, misattributed to Maya Angelou

Dorothy Parker
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Dorothy Parker/Ellen Parr

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
attributed to Maya Aangelou

Jorge Luis Borges
“If I could live again - I will travel light,
If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feet
at the beginning of spring till
the end of autumn,
I'll ride more carts,
I'll watch more sunrises...”
Jorge Luis Borges

“I took a certain pride in knowing I'd helped ruin his life enough to give him something substantial to write about.”
Mick Jagger

“Nature isn't argument it's misery beyond human reasonable.....”
Kayode Seyi Tayo

Nick Sagan
“The soul secure in her existence smiles at the drawn dagger and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself grow dim with age and nature sink in years, but thou shall flourish in immortal youth, unhurt amid the war of elements, the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.”
Nick Sagan

William Shatner
“There are no facts anymore, kiddo. only good or bad fiction.”
William Shatner

Baden Powell
“Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it."

[Misattributed to Baden Powell the English mathematician and Church of England priest. Properly attributed Sir Robert Baden-Powell founder of the Scout Movement]”
Baden Powell

Baden Powell
“But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best."

[Misattributed to Baden Powell the English mathematician and Church of England priest. Properly attributed to Sir Robert Baden-Powell the founder of the Scout Movement]”
Baden Powell

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