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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Eric Hoffer
    “Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.”
    ― Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms
    tags: rudeness, weakness
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    Eric Hoffer
    “In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
    tags: change-management, learning
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    Eric Hoffer
    “You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
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    Eric Hoffer
    “Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.”
    ― Eric Hoffer
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    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    ― Tom Bodett
    tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing
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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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    Colleen McCullough
    “Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.”
    ― Colleen McCullough, Caesar
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    Louise Erdrich
    “When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves
    tags: athe-plague-of-dives
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
    tags: education
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    Margaret Atwood
    “But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: memory, pain
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    Margaret Atwood
    “The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Hilary Mantel
    “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
    tags: facts, knowledge
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    Oliver Burkeman
    “For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to control in order to be happy; tranquility results from replacing our irrational judgments with rational ones”
    ― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
    tags: happiness, judgments, mind, negativity, stoics, thinking
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    Oliver Burkeman
    “Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't feel motivated; it's that you imagine you need to feel motivated. If you can regard your thoughts and emotions about whatever you're procrastinating on as passing weather, you'll realise that your reluctance about working isn't something that needs to be eradicated or transformed into positivity. You can coexist with it. You can note the procrastinatory feelings and act anyway.”
    ― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
    tags: buddhism, motivation, philosophy-of-life, positive-thinking, procrastination, psychology, work
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    Joe Klein
    “Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
    ― Joe Klein, Primary Colors
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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    Marvin Bell
    “Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
    ― Marvin Bell
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    Ann Leckie
    “Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience.”
    ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
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    Ann Leckie
    “If you’re going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.”
    ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
    tags: act, defiance
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    Ann Leckie
    “Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.”
    ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
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    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie
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    Diana Nyad
    “I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
    ― Diana Nyad
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  • #24
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams
    tags: night, poetry
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    Mary Renault
    “One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
    ― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy
    tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy
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    Edith Sitwell
    “I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
    ― Edith Sitwell
    tags: catfish, eccentricity, eels, fish, individuality
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    John Knowles
    “There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
    ― John Knowles, A Separate Peace
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    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Laura Esquivel
    “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
    ― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
    tags: fire, love, lust, matches
    2037 likes



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