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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #2
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #3
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #6
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #7
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #10
    C.S. Lewis
    “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #11
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #12
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #13
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Life is a journey, not a destination.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #14
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #15
    Marcus Aurelius
    “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #16
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #17
    John Wayne
    “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.”
    John Wayne

  • #18
    John Wayne
    “A man's got to do what a man's got to do.”
    John Wayne

  • #19
    H.L. Mencken
    “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
    H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series

  • #20
    H.L. Mencken
    “Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.”
    H. L. Mencken, Minority Report

  • #21
    H.L. Mencken
    “Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.”
    H.L. Mencken

  • #22
    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

  • #23
    P.J. O'Rourke
    “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
    P.J. O'Rourke

  • #24
    P.J. O'Rourke
    “There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
    P.J. O'Rourke

  • #25
    P.J. O'Rourke
    “America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.”
    P.J. O'Rourke

  • #26
    Jim Harrison
    “I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.”
    Jim Harrison

  • #27
    Jim Harrison
    “Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend. ”
    Jim Harrison

  • #28
    Dave Barry
    “A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”
    Dave Barry

  • #29
    Jim  Butcher
    “Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?”
    “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together.
    “There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly,” I said. “Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking.”
    She sniffed. “This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It’s okay to like both.”
    “Blasphemy and lies,” I said.”
    Jim Butcher, Ghost Story

  • #30
    Jim  Butcher
    “So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?”
    Jim Butcher, Death Masks



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