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    C.S. Lewis
    “One day you will be old enough to read fairy tales again”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    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
    tags: god, world
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant: the Machines. As the servants of the Machines are becoming a privileged class, the Machines are going to be enormously more powerful. (letter 96)”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: catholic, catholicism, technological-progress, technology, war, warfare, world-war-ii
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!"

    A cold voice answered: 'Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye."

    A sword rang as it was drawn. "Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may."

    "Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!"

    Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. "But no living man am I!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: eowyn, éowyn
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    S.D. Smith
    “The Green Ember burns; the seed of the New World smolders. Healing is on the horizon, but a fire comes first. Bear the flame.”
    ― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember
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    S.D. Smith
    “I love a happy ending... because I need hope.”
    ― S.D. Smith, Ember Falls
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    S.D. Smith
    “What do I always tell you? ‘ Not enough salt is an in-salt,’ and ‘Too much salt is an as-salt!”
    ― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember
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    S.D. Smith
    “we have to keep loving what’s on the other side of this fight—the other side of this rescue— and that will have to make us brave.”
    ― S.D. Smith, Ember Rising
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    S.D. Smith
    “My place beside you. My blood for yours. Till the Green Ember rises, or the end of the world!”
    ― S.D. Smith, The Black Star of Kingston
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism, politics
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    Peter Kreeft
    “In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.”
    ― Peter Kreeft
    tags: hope, hopelessness, humanity, peter-kreeft
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    Peter Kreeft
    “Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.”
    ― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
    tags: catholicism, christianity, culture, culture-critique, heroes, jesus-shock, philosophy, spirituality, theology
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    Peter Kreeft
    “By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.”
    ― peter kreeft, Jesus-Shock
    tags: adam-and-eve, apple, apple-computer-inc, bible, catholicism, christianity, forbidden-fruit, garden-of-eden, genesis, humor, jesus-shock, laptop, mac, macintosh, old-testament, original-sin, philosophy, sarcasm, spirituality, steve-jobs, theology
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    S.D. Smith
    “Picket,” he said quietly, “stay angry. It’s okay if it’s at me, for now. If you aren’t angry about the wicked things happening in the world all around, then you don’t have a soul.”
    ― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember
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    S.D. Smith
    “Shuffler, you're going to have to stop doing that....[....]...It's 'my place beside you,' not 'my place blocking your view.”
    ― S.D. Smith, Ember's End
    tags: ember-s-end, emma, humor, shuffler
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    S.D. Smith
    “Dear Kyle, you are the great nitwit of the world. Love, Jo Shanks.”
    ― S.D. Smith, Ember's End
    tags: ember-s-end, humor, jo-shanks, kylen
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    S.D. Smith
    “Do you even know how to use one?' he asked. "The sharp part at the bad guys?' 'That's the general idea.”
    ― S.D. Smith, Ember's End
    tags: ember-s-end, emma, humor, pickett
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    S.D. Smith
    “I never don’t not clean my sword,”
    ― S.D. Smith, The First Fowler
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: hermione
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    J.K. Rowling
    “We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: human, life, value, worth
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
    "Yes."
    "You called her a liar?"
    "Yes."
    "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
    "Yes."
    "Have a biscuit, Potter.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Never, never, never give in!”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: perseverance, wisdom
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor
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