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    George R.R. Martin
    “When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: censorship
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: asoif, catelyn-stark, game-of-thrones
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: entrepreneurship, inspirational, leadership
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    C.G. Jung
    “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
    ― Carl Jung
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    George R.R. Martin
    “It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: a-storm-of-swords, asoiaf, fantasy, grrm
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: scars, souls, suffering
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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    Stanisław Jerzy Lec
    “Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.”
    ― Stanislaw J. Lec
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    John Green
    “there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    John Green
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps. That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: great-perhaps, john-green, looking-for-alaska, seek
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: aloneness, loneliness, sadness
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    “Discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.”
    ― Albert Szent-Gyorgi
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: equanimity, opinion
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    Juan Ramón Jiménez
    “If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
    ― Juan Ramón Jiménez, Invisible Reality
    tags: epigraph, fahrenheit-451, nonconformity, protest, ray-bradbury
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    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: design, foolproof, ingenuity
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    J.B.S. Haldane
    “If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.”
    ― J.B.S. Haldane
    tags: creation
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    John Lennon
    “Life is what happens to you whilst you busy making other plans”
    ― John Lennon
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    John Green
    “Truth resists simplicity.”
    ― John Green
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
    tags: cause, crusade, luxury, promise
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    Robert Frost
    “The best way out is always through.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: feelings, persistence, problems
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    Christopher McCandless
    “Happiness is only real, when shared.”
    ― Christopher McCandless
    tags: into-the-wild
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    Franklin P. Adams
    “Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.”
    ― Franklin P. Adams
    tags: memory
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    “The wealthiest place in the world is not the gold mines of South America or the oil fields of Iraq or Iran. They are not the diamond mines of South Africa or the banks of the world. The wealthiest place on the planet is just down the road. It is the cemetery. There lie buried companies that were never started, inventions that were never made, bestselling books that were never written, and masterpieces that were never painted. In the cemetery is buried the greatest treasure of untapped potential.”
    ― Myles Munroe
    tags: motivational
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    Terry Pratchett
    “There is a curse.
    They say:
    May you live in interesting times.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
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    Carl Sagan
    “The Earth is the only world known so far to harbour life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit? Yes. Settle? Not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. ... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve, and cherish, the pale blue dot; the only home we've ever known.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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    Mary Pickford
    “Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again”
    ― Mary Pickford
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    Annie Dillard
    “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”
    ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
    tags: habit, life, living, schedule
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