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#1

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly

tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing

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#2

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed

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#3

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: drinking, humor

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#4

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: beer, drinking, misquote

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#5

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher

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#6

“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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#7

“Sam inquired in a low voice, “You don’t like heights?”
Caleb shrugged his shoulders noncommittally and replied, “Maybe it isn’t so much a fear of heights as it is a fear of plummeting to my death.”
― Katie Lynn Johnson, Amulet of Elusion

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#8

“Every step he took in the direction of the First Regiment camp was a struggle. His logic alone told him that it was for the best. Every other fiber of his being was screaming for him to return to the castle, to Alexa. He had ignored it for so long, the pull that he felt toward her. But ignoring it had become impossible.”
― Katie Lynn Johnson, Amulet of Power

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#9

“Just thinking about spending an uninterrupted hour with him makes the color rise in my cheeks, and Emma inquires, “Are you okay? You seem kind of…distracted.”
Distracted. Well, that’s one way to put it.
Deciding to throw caution to the wind, I fess up, “Kyle’s here. It’s our first night together.”
“The cop who arrested you?” Emma suddenly looks much more cheerful as she quips, “Kinky, Jessalyn. Did he bring his handcuffs?”
― Katie Lynn Johnson, The Cursed Existence of Jessalyn Bell

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#10

“The grass and the vines and the willow tree were all so lush and vividly green that he was slightly awed by them. Their location within an alcove of a cliff made all of it more remarkable. It was such an unexpected place for something so beautiful, like an oasis in the middle of a barren desert.”
― Katie Lynn Johnson, Amulet of Elusion

tags: fantasy, fantasy-series, fiction, young-adult

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#11

“It had been the most difficult part of coming to terms with what she was; knowing that she had to give up a potentially blissful and wildly happy relationship with Caleb. But it was her responsibility, she told herself, to say goodbye to him.”
― Katie Lynn Johnson, Amulet of Elusion

tags: adventure, fantasy, romance, young-adult

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#12

“No sooner had the thought occurred to him than he found himself staring down the barrel of a single-shot caplock pistol, and halted in his tracks. It was not a particularly accurate weapon if he remembered correctly, not that it would matter at point-blank range.”
― Katie Lynn Johnson, Before the Storm

tags: adventure, fantasy, young-adult

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#13

“An elegant sari was draped across her figure; magnificent, painstakingly embroidered, and in a shade of deep red, it was even more lavish than the gowns she had worn every day since arriving at the castle. Her lips and eyes were painted, and though she looked beautiful she had never been more miserable.”
― Katie Lynn Johnson, Amulet of Power

tags: adventure, fantasy, suspense, young-adult

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#14

“But she had slept, she was positive. She knew it because of the dreams. Despite the comfort of her bed she had tossed and turned all night, her sleep punctured by images and disjointed flashes of battle. She thought she had also dreamt of a handsome stranger with dark hair and a charming smile. Upon waking, however, the unknown man’s features were indistinct in her memory.”
― Katie Lynn Johnson, Amulet of Power

tags: adventure, fantasy, suspense, young-adult

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#15

“Honestly, Miss Costa,” Queen Jada stated briskly as she sprinkled a pinch of salt over her plate. “There are hundreds of women who would kill to be in your position.”
“Well, perhaps I can meet them,” Alexa said snidely, her panic quickly turning to anger, “because I would rather die than be Dante’s wife.”
― Katie Lynn Johnson, Amulet of Power

tags: fantasy-young-adult

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#16

“Caleb thanked her as she walked past him to leave, and he felt an odd swooping sensation in his stomach when she flashed him a dazzling smile. He couldn't help but look after her as she swept from the room, and felt a ripple of pleasure when she paused in the doorway to look back at him. It wasn't entirely fair, he thought, that a girl should be able to affect him the way the nameless angel had.”
― Katie Lynn Johnson, Before the Storm

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#17

“He kissed her slowly, deeply, seized by a slew of contrasting emotions. It was wrong to kiss her, he registered faintly in the back of his mind, but it felt more right than anything else he had done since arriving in Alvair. A fire awakened somewhere within him as their lips met, the heat of it at odds with the chill of the Amulet clutched between their hands.”
― Katie Lynn Johnson, Amulet of Power

tags: fantasy, romance, young-adult

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#18

“It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: bullying, cowardice, divergent, eric, page-162, tris-prior, veronica-roth

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#19

“Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks... show off. To me, that's what bullying is, showing off. It's saying, I'm better than you, I can take you down. Not just physically, but emotionally.”
― Whoopi Goldberg, Is It Just Me?: Or Is It Nuts Out There?

tags: bullying

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#20

“I will never grow thick skin so that you don't have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

tags: bullies, bullying, jerks, sensitivity, thick-skin

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#21

“At the time I thought the winner in an argument was the person who put forward the most logical support for his position. Of course, this isn't true. Human history, from gardening disputes to genocide, is full of examples of people with the most decent, well-argued stance ending up with their face in the mud in front of a naked display of power.”
― Mark Barrowcliffe, The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange

tags: 2007, argument, bullying, logic

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#22

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: dissent, freedom-of-speech, truth-telling

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#23

“To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi, Letters from Burma

tags: democracy, freedom, freedom-of-speech, politics

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#24

“Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: abuse, dictatorship, force, freedom, freedom-of-speech, miranda-rights, miranda-warning, pressure, rights, silence, speech, warning

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#25

“A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant

tags: anonymity, democracy, freedom-of-speech, power, privacy, responsibilities, rights, truth

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#26

“The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.”
― Murong Xuecun

tags: freedom-of-speech, literature

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#27

“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.”
― Tim Fargo

tags: caution, deliberation, dissent, expressing-yourself, expression, freedom, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, ideas, speech, thinking, writing

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#28

“Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences.”
― John R. Dallas Jr., We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere

tags: consequences, freedom-of-speech, words

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#29

“Journalism can be lethal”
― Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

tags: decision-making, freedom-of-speech, journalism

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#30

“Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.”
― Richard Puz, The Carolinian

tags: expressing-oneself, expressing-yourself, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, informed-decisions, involved, know-right-from-wrong, know-the-issues, oppoose-wrongheadedness, oppose-wrong-actions, politically-active, politically-involved, thoughtful-reflection, understand, understand-issues

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