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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge
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    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
    tags: absence, loss
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    John Steinbeck
    “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    tags: contrast, life, opposites, summer, winter
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    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, reading
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    John Green
    “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
    ― John Green
    tags: vlog
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  • #6
    Neil Gaiman
    “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
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    Neil Gaiman
    “There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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  • #12
    Stephen King
    “Time's the thief of memory”
    ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
    tags: jake-chambers, memory, roland-deschain, time
    517 likes

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  • #13
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
    3835 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting
    2714 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: violence
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  • #19
    Isaac Asimov
    “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: education, learning, lifelong-learning, self-education
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  • #20
    Isaac Asimov
    “Tell me why the stars do shine,
    Tell me why the ivy twines,
    Tell me what makes skies so blue,
    And I'll tell you why I love you.

    Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
    Tropisms make the ivy twine,
    Raleigh scattering make skies so blue,
    Testicular hormones are why I love you. ”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Alan Alda
    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    ― Alan Alda
    tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind
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    Isaac Asimov
    “It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
    ― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
    tags: common-sense, perspective, philosophers
    597 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: philosophy, science
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    Isaac Asimov
    “People think of education as something they can finish.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: education
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  • #25
    Hypatia
    “To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force... Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”
    ― Hypatia
    tags: hell
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    Hypatia
    “Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth — often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.”
    ― Hypathia of Alexandria
    tags: belief, fables, fantasies, fight, indoctrination, intangible, miracles, misdirection, myths, refutation, superstitions, teaching, truth
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    Hypatia
    “All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.”
    ― Hypatia of Alexandria
    tags: dogma, dogmatic-religion
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
    21193 likes

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  • #29
    Virginia Woolf
    “I am rooted, but I flow.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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  • #30
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
    10247 likes



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