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    Oliver Sacks
    “Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
    ― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous
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    Anna Quindlen
    “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
    ― Anna Quindlen
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    Books fall open, you fall in.
    “Books fall open, you fall in.”
    ― David T.W. McCord
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    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
    tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
    tags: heart, infidelity, relationships, seasons, summer
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    Joshua V. Scher
    “Ben Franklin noted the malleability and power of language: “A rebellion is always legal in the first person, such as ‘our rebellion.’ It is only in the third person—‘their rebellion’—that it becomes illegal.”
    ― Joshua V. Scher, Here & There
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
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    Alan Alda
    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    ― Alan Alda
    tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind
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  • #18
    “Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.”
    ― David Mamet
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    Douglas Wood
    “The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”
    ― Douglas Wood
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    “The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.”
    ― Kelly Wearstler
    tags: good-listener, key-to-success, listening-skills
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    Charles Frazier
    “Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.”
    ― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
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    Maya Angelou
    “Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
    tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey
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