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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    John Steinbeck
    “My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: imagination
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    Ayn Rand
    “What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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    John Steinbeck
    “People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    Ayn Rand
    “If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"

    I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"

    To shrug.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: philosophic-philosophy
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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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    George Orwell
    “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: secrets
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    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
    tags: inspirational-quotes, strength-and-courage
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    John Green
    “that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
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    John Green
    “You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    Veronica Roth
    “I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    Veronica Roth
    “Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
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    John Steinbeck
    “But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel
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    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    Ayn Rand
    “I am, therefore I'll think.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
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    Ayn Rand
    “A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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    Ellen Hopkins
    “The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Crank
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    Ellen Hopkins
    “How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Crank
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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