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“The only thing that makes something impossible is ignorance.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Midnight at the Well of Souls

“All magic means is a line between knowledge and ignorance,”
― Jack L. Chalker, Midnight at the Well of Souls

“...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.”
― Jack L. Chalker, The Ninety Trillion Fausts

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“What we do flows from who we are.”
― Charles Colson

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck.”
― Robert Heinlein

“Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice. Finally, I’ve come to believe that the true measure of our commitment to justice, the character of our society, our commitment to the rule of law, fairness, and equality cannot be measured by how we treat the rich, the powerful, the privileged, and the respected among us. The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“Every moment is the moment of truth.”
― Thien Pham, Sumo

“You change your life by doing, not by thinking about doing.”
― Gary John Bishop, Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life

“There aren't any roadsigns when you're trekking through uncharted territory. It's all discovery and exploration.”
― Gary John Bishop, Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life

“I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“We of alien looks or words must stick together.”
― C.J. Sansom, Revelation

“You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Under in the Mere

“Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
― Jim Butcher, Vignette

“The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.”
― Steven Moffat

“Like so much in life, it was the internal concept that counted, not the outward appearance.”
― Jerry Merritt, A Gift of Time

“If you do a poor job now, Cager, you aren’t taking care of the person you will become. How successful that future person is depends on you doing your part here and now.”
― Jerry Merritt, A Gift of Time

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth

“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.”
― Robert A. Heinlein