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    Jim Butcher
    “Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.”
    ― Jim Butcher
    tags: evil, harry-dresden, molly-carpenter
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    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: evil, good
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: conscience, good-and-evil, humanity, native-americans, self-determination
    820 likes

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    Mae West
    “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
    ― Mae West
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Man is the cruelest animal.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man
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    William Shakespeare
    “They do not love that do not show their love.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    tags: love
    1092 likes

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  • #7
    Veronica Roth
    “Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.”
    ― Veronica Roth , Divergent
    tags: dystopian
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    Dan Brown
    “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: books, dan-brown, religion, science
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    Mark Twain
    “You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-bible
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    Carl Sagan
    “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: metaphysics, philosophy, science, sense-of-wonder, spirituality
    2815 likes

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    Jim Butcher
    “Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Storm Front
    tags: demon, paranoia, paranoid
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    Jim Butcher
    “I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
    tags: dresden, family, friends, friendship
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    Jim Butcher
    “You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat
    tags: america, diplomacy
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    Rick Riordan
    “It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
    tags: humanity, humans, mankind, reality
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    Dan Brown
    “Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: dan-brown-angels-and-demons, humans
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    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: arrogance, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, men, self-importance, women
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
    tags: psychology
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    Julian Barnes
    “Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: arrogance, fear, men, women
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    Paulo Coelho
    “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
    ― J.K. rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: fear
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: life, love
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    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
    8469 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: chance, happiness, risk
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
    7904 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, discovery, identity, self-discovery, service
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    Coco Chanel
    “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
    ― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
    tags: be-yourself, empowerment, girls, identity, individuality, self-determination, women
    3352 likes

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    Vera Nazarian
    “The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.

    The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

    The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

    Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.

    Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.

    The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.

    Dare to breach the surface and sink.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: bones, contradiction, contrast, danger, dangers, deep, delve, depth, depths, desert, desolation, dig, drought, dry, dust, eco, ecology, hidden, illusion, innards, inside, inside-out, inward, membrane, microcosm, mysteries, mystery, obscure, obscured, occult, ocean, outside, plenty, profound, profundity, riches, richness, scarcity, skin, skin-deep, superficial, surface, water, within, without, world
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship, inspirational
    10662 likes

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  • #30
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
    5343 likes



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