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#1

“I decided at some point that if a book was good enough for me to read through to the end, it deserves 5 stars. If not, I should not give it a rating at all. This why all my ratings are 5-star ratings. I don't believe in finishing books I don't love, and I believe very strongly that low ratings do more harm than good to my fellow writers.”
― Kathleen Balma

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#2

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

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#3

“Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

tags: cowards, fools, leaders, leadership, liars, thieves, tyrants

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#4

“There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

tags: demands, life, living, novels, science-fiction, world

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#5

“Beware:
Ignorance
Protects itself.
Ignorance
Promotes suspicion.
Suspicion
Engenders fear.
Fear quails,
Irrational and blind,
Or fear looms,
Defiant and closed.
Blind, closed,
Suspicious, afraid,
Ignorance
Protects itself,
And protected,
Ignorance grows.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

tags: truth

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#6

“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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#7

“Beware:
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

tags: death, peace, science-fiction, self-interest, selfishness, unenlightened-self-interest, war

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#8

“Embrace diversity.
Unite—
Or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

tags: diversity, equality, unity

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#9

“Kindness eases change.
Love quiets fear.
And a sweet and powerful
Positive obsession
Blunts pain,
Diverts rage,
And engages each of us
In the greatest,
The most intense
Of our chosen struggles.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

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#10

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

tags: inspirational, optimism, perseverance

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#11

“The child in each of us
Knows paradise.
Paradise is home.
Home as it was
Or home as it should have been.

Paradise is one's own place,
One's own people,
One's own world,
Knowing and known,
Perhaps even
Loving and loved.

Yet every child
Is cast from paradise-
Into growth and new community,
Into vast, ongoing
Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

tags: children-change

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#12

“[BURR]
I am the one thing in life I can control.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

tags: hamilton, inspirational, musicals

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#13

“You have no control. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

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#14

“[HAMILTON]
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

tags: alexander-hamilton, death, death-and-dying, memory, musicals

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#15

“Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

tags: broadway, musical

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#16

“[HAMILTON}
There's a million things I haven't done but just you wait.
Just you wait.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

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#17

“I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

tags: alexander-hamilton, family, hamilton, hamilton-musical, kind, lin-manuel-miranda, love, sister, sisterhood

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