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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Ira Gershwin
    “S wonderful! 'S marvelous!
    That you should care for me!”
    ― Ira Gershwin
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    Howard Zinn
    “I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: autonomy, complacency, ethics, independence, politics, proactivity, self-determination, society
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    Howard Zinn
    “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: nationalism, patriotism, war
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    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: funny
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    Johnny Cash
    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
    ― Johnny Cash
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    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    ― Erica Jong
    tags: courage, talent
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Edward P. Jones
    “We are all worthy of one another.”
    ― Edward P. Jones, The Known World
    tags: love, worthiness
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    Charles Bukowski
    “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Walter Mosley
    “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
    ― Walter Mosley, Blue Light
    tags: change, growth
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    Victor Hugo
    “To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
    ― Victor Hugo
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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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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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Ntozake Shange
    “i found god in myself
    and i loved her
    i loved her fiercely”
    ― Ntozake Shange
    tags: poetry
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    Suzanne Somers
    “Codependence - Someone who lives someone else's life.”
    ― Suzanne Somers
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    Stendhal
    “There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
    ― Stendhal, Love
    tags: beauty, happiness
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    Jackie French
    “Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.”
    ― Jackie French, author
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    “Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
    ― Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    “Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.”
    ― Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    “Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.”
    ― Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Andrea Mays
    “This reasoning is based on the wishful thinking that genius can only be earned through education and hard work. It denies the time-proven truth that genius can strike like a random bolt of lightning, at any time in any place, even in a humble glover's home in a small town in Elizabethan England.”
    ― Andrea Mays, The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger's Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare's First Folio
    tags: genius, inspirational, literature, shakespeare
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: envy
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    Rachel Ann Nunes
    “Do what makes you happy, be with who makes you smile, laugh as much as you breathe, and love as long as you live.”
    ― Rachel Ann Nunes
    tags: enjoy-life
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    Rachel Ann Nunes
    “I find myself very, very happy to be a weird writer.”
    ― Rachel Ann Nunes
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: love, madness
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    Caitlin Moran
    “It's difficult to see the glass ceiling because it's made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly.”
    ― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
    tags: feminism, humor
    188 likes



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