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    Tony Millionaire
    “You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful things when they're young, when they grow up they'll see the real world and say, 'Why is the world so ugly?! I remember when the world was beautiful.' And then they'll fight, and they'll have a revolution. They'll fight against all of our corruption in the world, they'll fight to try to make the world more beautiful. That's the job of a good children's book illustrator.”
    ― Tony Millionaire
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    Shel Silverstein
    “If you are a dreamer come in
    If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
    A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
    If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
    For we have some flax golden tales to spin
    Come in!
    Come in!”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: dreamer, imagination, liar, make-believe, poetry, wisher, wishes
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    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    ― Plato
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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  • #5
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    ― E. E. Cummings
    tags: death, life, poetry
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: poetry, prose, writing
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Though much is taken, much abides; and though
    We are not now that strength which in old days
    Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
    One equal temper of heroic hearts,
    Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
    To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
    tags: age, heroism, poetry, ulysses
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
    tags: poetry, words
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    Anne Sexton
    “Watch out for intellect,
    because it knows so much it knows nothing
    and leaves you hanging upside down,
    mouthing knowledge as your heart
    falls out of your mouth.”
    ― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems
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    Edith Wharton
    “My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.”
    ― Edith Wharton
    tags: love
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Billy Sunday
    “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
    ― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ
    tags: automobile, car, funny, humor, religious
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Rob Sheffield
    “It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.”
    ― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Seneca
    “Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.”
    ― Seneca
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    Helen Keller
    “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: inspirational
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    Helen Keller
    “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: character
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    Helen Keller
    “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: lily-white-cleats
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  • #23
    “Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    E.E. Cummings
    “because it's

    Spring
    thingS

    dare to do people

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    Darling

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    e It's we)”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: e-e-cummings
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: inspiring
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