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#2

“I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
― Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

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#2

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

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#3

“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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#4

“...you don't really become a finer person just by reading lots of books.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

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#5

“Like the first whiff of burning incense, or like the taste of one's first cup of saké, there is in love that moment when all its power is felt.”
― Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

tags: love

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#6

“To tell you the truth, I used to consider it a disgrace to be found ignorant by other people. But now, I find that I am not ashamed of knowing less than others, and I'm less inclined to force myself to read books. In short, I have grown old and decrepit.”
― Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

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#7

“I am an inconsistent creature. Perhaps it is the pressure of my past, and not my own perverse mind, that has made me into this contradictory being. I am all too well aware of this fault in myself. You must forgive me.”
― Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro

tags: human-behavior, truth

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#8

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
― Isaac Newton

tags: science, truth

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#9

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
― Isaac Newton

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#10

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”
― Isaac Newton

tags: id, intelligent-design, religion, religion-and-science, science, science-and-religion

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#11

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”
― Sir Isaac Newton

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#12

“What goes up must come down.”
― Isaac Newton

tags: apple, newton, science

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#13

“Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation”
― Newton

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#14

“Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.”
― Sir Isaac Newton

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#15

“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
― Isaac Newton

tags: christian, education, faith, fake-quote, god, gravity, isaac-newton, newton, physics, spirituality

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#16

“If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get
similar results.”
― Isaac Newton

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#17

“They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.”
― Isaac Newton

tags: alchemy, philosophy, religion

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#18

“Even the works of Shakespeare might be more thoroughly appreciated if they were re-examined from unorthodox positions. Someone, once in a while, should take a good long look at Hamlet through his legs.”
― Sōseki Natsume, I Am a Cat

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#19

“I am not as hard as I seem. For the right person, I too could shed a few tears.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Grass on the Wayside

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#20

“The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
― William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

tags: self-sacrifice

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#21

“A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. ”
― William Blake

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#22

“Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.”
― William Blake

tags: vampires

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#23

“Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.”
― William Blake

tags: enlightenment, light

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#24

“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
― William Blake

tags: common-sense, inspirational, wisdom

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#25

“For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.

If thought is life
And strength and breath
And the want
Of thought is death

Then am I
A happy fly
If I live
Or if I die”
― William Blake

tags: poem

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#26

“How can a bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?”
― William Blake

tags: freedom

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#27

“Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.”
― William Blake

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#28

“We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

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#29

“How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

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#30

“I will love you to ruination.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

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