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    علي بن أبي طالب
    “Do not raise your children the way [your] parents raised you, they were born for a different time.”
    ― Ali Bin Abi Thalib
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    “As long as you are standing, give a hand to those who have fallen.”
    ― Persian Proverb
    tags: compassion, inspirational
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: education, marriage
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts--it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved--but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: acceptable, behavior, inspirational, life, motivational, pain, understand
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    Sophia Dembling
    “Every introvert alive knows the exquisite pleasure of stepping from the clamor of a party into the bathroom and closing the door”
    ― Sophia Dembling, The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World
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    Eliezer Yudkowsky
    “You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.”
    ― Eliezer Yudkowsky
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    علي بن أبي طالب
    “There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.”
    ― Ali Bin Abi Thalib
    tags: education, inspirational
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Cunt again? It was odd how men like Suggs used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: asha, asha-greyjoy, dance-with-dragons, song-of-ice-and-fire
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    “Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
    ― Steven Spielberg
    tags: education, reading
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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    Astrid Lindgren
    “A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
    ― Astrid Lindgren
    tags: books, children, children-s-literature
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    John Waters
    “Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
    ― John Waters
    tags: art, creativity, inspiration, writing, writing-advice-process
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    Terry Pratchett
    “You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: cruelty, dark-humor, dragons, morality
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: loneliness, passion
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
    tags: cleanliness, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: humor, men, witchcraft, witches, women
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    Alan Bennett
    “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The History Boys
    tags: books, history, reading
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    Alan Bennett
    “Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there's no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The History Boys
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    Alan Bennett
    “History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.”
    ― Alan Bennett, The History Boys
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?”
    ― George R.R. Martin
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    Alain de Botton
    “Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.”
    ― Alain de Botton
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    Natalie Babbitt
    “Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
    ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
    tags: life
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    Helen Fielding
    “It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
    ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
    tags: heathcliff, humour, mr-darcy, snooty, wuthering-heights
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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