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#1

“The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the young idea is shackled with timidity and a useful thought is buried in the impenetrable gloom of eternal oblivion.”
― Robert Fulton, A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation: Exhibiting the Numerous Advantages to Be Derived from Small Canals and Boats of Two to Five Feet ... of the Machinery for Facilitating...

tags: doubt, energy, envy, fear, ignorance, oblivion, opinions, opposition

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#2

“I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin”
― Rachel Caine, Bite Club

tags: bite-club, humor, myrnin

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#3

“Owe ye everything, son. Ye need or want anything, ye just ask."
Nox earns a point in my dad's book when he utters, "I'm quite partial to your daughter, actually. I was kinda hoping I could keep her.”
― Belle Aurora, Willing Captive

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#4

“Olivia. I've lost her three times. The first was to impatience. The second was to a lie so dense we couldn't work our way through it, and the third time - this time - I've lost her to Noah.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

tags: caleb

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#5

“He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

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#6

“Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

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#7

“Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do (...) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

tags: hypnosis, illusions, music, psychology

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#8

“Do you know how terrible I felt when Marcus came down and found me sitting there like a turd?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Apollyon

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#9

“يقول: افتقدتكِ كثيرًا أثناء غيابك.
أقول: أنا لم أفتقدك أبدًا، فلم تغادرني ولم أغادرك.
كنت تتمشى بين أوردتي وتستريح في وجداني..
وكنت حاضرًا في غيابي.”
― سعدية مفرح

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#10

“And swell not thy cheek (for pride) at men, nor walk in insolence through the earth; for Allah loveth not any arrogant boaster.”
― Anonymous, القرآن الكريم

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#11

“In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'
No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

tags: comradery, heroism, war

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#12

“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: ruin-and-rising, teaser

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#13

“Uncle Drew?"
"Yes, sweetheart?"
"Where do babies come from?”
― Emma Chase, Twisted

tags: bad-word-jar, drew-evans, kate-brooks, mackenzie, twisted

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#14

“Adam: "Perhaps you should get a real job and become a useful member of society."
Gordon: "Perhaps you should shove a pipe up your ass and die of lead poisoning.”
― Santino Hassell, After Midnight

tags: after-midnight, gordon, santino

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#15

“If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: adversity, alone, beautiful, compassion, difficulties, finding-oneself, hardship, humanity, loneliness, misunderstanding, pain, sadness, solitude, understanding

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#16

“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.”
― Thomas M. Cirignano, The Constant Outsider: Memoirs of a South Boston Mechanic

tags: boston, boston-harbor, boston-history, bully, bullying, castle-island, cirignano, discrimination, dorchester, drinking-and-driving, fitting-in, forced-busing, gas-shortage, irish-mob, italian, memoir, murder, nonfiction, osracism, south-boston, southie, true-crime, whitey-bulger

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#17

“A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: adaptation, anger, attitude, bullied, bully, bullying, confidence, confidence-and-attitude, encouragement, growth, inspirational, introvert, loneliness, motivational, outcast, pain, youth

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#18

“We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: assertiveness, bully, coward, oppression, timidity

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#19

“Experience is the best teacher.”
― Penelope Douglas, Bully

tags: author, best, book, books, bullies, bully, douglas, experience, penelope, penelope-douglas, teacher

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#20

“In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: aid, better-world, envy, excellence, helping, mockery, strength, superhuman, weakness, world

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#21

“It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.”
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

tags: bully, harrasment, little, mean, weak

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#22

“One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: conviction, cultivate, determination, excel, meaning, monopolize, perseverance, practice, rejection, respect, skills, subdue, success, talents, training

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#23

“The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

tags: bully, dreamer, question, victim, visionary, who-you-are

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#24

“A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.”
― Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

tags: bully

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#25

“I will no longer let the fear of vicious comments or replies stop me from speaking what I believe to be right. I will also never give a message that everybody will agree with. I know that even my most faithful followers will never agree 100% with what I say. I also know that they know that and are fine with it.

I am done letting the bullies win. They won’t anymore. Not here.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

tags: blogging, blogs, bullies, bully, followers, negative, negativity, peer-pressure, public-figures, public-opinion, respond, voices, writing

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#26

“Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything strange?"
Alanna didn't look up. "No." It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time. ”
― Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

tags: alanna, bully, lying, ralon, strange

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#27

“Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.”
― Frank Portman, King Dork

tags: bully, cringe, high-school, nickname, wince

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#28

“I don't care what people say about how I look or even their opinion on my relationship. But the moment you judge my character is when we have a problem.”
― Rachelle Friedman

tags: awesome, bully, character, courage

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#29

“If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

tags: bullies, bully, bullying, compassion, empathy, greatness, love

40 likes

#30

“People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: bully, egotist, feel-better, fool, gossip, idiot, impressionalbe, laugh, make-fun-of, memory, name-calling, remember, rumor, strangely, stupidity

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