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#1

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism

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#2

“Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

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#3

“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: common-sense, hermione-granger, knowledge, logic, reason, skepticism

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#4

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

tags: faramir

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#5

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: inspirational

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#6

“You cannot take vengeance on a whole people because of the doings of a few wicked men.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

tags: blame, crime, discrimination, innocent, punishment, russian-folklore, vasilisa, vasilisa-the-brave, vengeance, wicked-people

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#7

“Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."
"But the Almighty determines what is right!"
"Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: altruism, belief, ethics, heart, humanism, morality, punishment, religion, retribution, right, wrong

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#8

“My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

tags: power

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#9

“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

tags: inspirational

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#10

“This is your copy of Advanced Potion-Making, is it, Potter?”
“Yes,” said Harry, still breathing hard.
“You’re quite sure of that, are you, Potter?”
“Yes,” said Harry, with a touch more defiance.
“This is the copy of Advanced Potion-Making that you purchased from Flourish and Blotts?”
“Yes,” said Harry firmly.
“Then why,” asked Snape, “does it have the name ‘Roonil Wazlib’ written inside the front cover?”
Harry’s heart missed a beat. “That’s my nickname,” he said.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

tags: harry-potter, humor, potions, ron-weasley, severus-snape

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#11

“Char was too precious to hurt, too precious to lose, too precious to betray, too precious to marry, too precious to kill, too precious to obey.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

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#12

“I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

tags: freedom

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#13

“What are you on about?” said Ron, though Harry thought he knew what was coming. “House-elves!” said Hermione, her eyes flashing. “Not once, in over a thousand pages, does Hogwarts: A History mention that we are all colluding in the oppression of a hundred slaves!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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#14

“Knowledge is power, but it is a terrible power when it is hoarded and hidden.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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#15

“Short cuts make long delays.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: humour, life-lesson, pippin, proverbs, shortcuts

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#16

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,” said Jojen. “The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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#17

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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#18

“I love you, Grandmama.”
“I know, darling,” Xan wheezed. “I love . . .”
And she drifted away, loving everything.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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#19

“There is a point to everything or nothing at all, depending on your worldview.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

tags: quotes

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#20

“Better terrible truths than kind lies.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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