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    Jacqueline Carey
    “Love child!" What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Scion
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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    Judy Garland
    “Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time we'd like each other a little more.”
    ― Judy Garland
    tags: empathy, gentle, love, new-year
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    Leonard Cohen
    “How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: beginning, beginnings, end, fresh-start, new-leaf, start-over, try-again
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: communication, misattributed, misunderstanding
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    Orson Scott Card
    “So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: communication, war
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    James Baldwin
    “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: parenting, role-models
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    Aldous Huxley
    “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting
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    Dorothy Parker
    “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: empty-nest, humor, motherhood, parenthood, parenting
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: adults, antoine-de-saint-exupery, children, philosophy, the-little-prince
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
    "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: beauty, children, classic, nature, spring
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    Fred Rogers
    “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”
    ― Fred Rogers
    tags: children, heroes, heroism
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    J.M. Barrie
    “All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: aging, children, two-years-old
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don’t usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: children, inspirational
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    Barack Obama
    “The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition.

    But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”
    ― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
    tags: conscience, justice, law, law-school, society
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    Reginald Rose
    “Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.”
    ― Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men
    tags: facts, law, people, personalities
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    Voltaire
    “If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: law, legislation
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    Robert Frost
    “Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: breakup, family
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    Francis P. Karam
    “Recognize that the legal adversarial system us a flawed way to find the truth.”
    ― Francis P. Karam, The Truth Engine: Cross-Examination Outside the Box
    tags: justice, justice-system, law, lawyers, legal, legal-system, truth, truth-and-lies, truth-quotations, truth-quotes
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
    12583 likes



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