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    Barack Obama
    “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: determination, helping-others, hope, initiative, just-do-it, proactivity, service, volunteerism, work
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    George W. Bush
    “One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
    ― George W. Bush
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Lemony Snicket
    “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
    tags: life
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Richard M. Nixon
    “Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.”
    ― Richard Nixon
    tags: attributed-no-source, drugs, law, marijuana, prohibition
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fate, humor, simile
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-reading
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window
    tags: humor-cats-allergies
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    Lemony Snicket
    “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: libraries, reading
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    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor
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    Lemony Snicket
    “One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril
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    Barack Obama
    “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: change, inspirational
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    Richard Dawkins
    “I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
    ― Richard Dawkins
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    David McCullough
    “To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."

    [The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
    ― David McCullough
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    David McCullough
    “History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ”
    ― David McCullough
    tags: history, inspiration
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    David McCullough
    “When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”
    ― David McCullough, John Adams
    tags: bereavement, historical, inspirational, literary, women
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    David McCullough
    “If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.”
    ― David McCullough
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    David McCullough
    “You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.”
    ― David McCullough
    tags: history
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    David McCullough
    “Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society.”
    ― David McCullough, 1776
    tags: politics, social-criticism
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    Jon Stewart
    “If "con" is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress? Or did we just fucking blow your mind?!?”
    ― Jon Stewart, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
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    “The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.”
    ― Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
    tags: books, composure, culture, unread
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    Jon Stewart
    “I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.”
    ― Jon Stewart
    tags: canada, funny
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    Jon Stewart
    “Get there early because hope does not park your mother-fucking car.”
    ― Jon Stewart
    tags: humor, obama, parking
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    Jon Stewart
    “To have not shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak.”
    ― Jon Stewart
    tags: humor
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    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
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    Bernie Sanders
    “The American people want to know that when they borrow a book from the library or buy a book, the government won't be looking over their shoulder. Everybody wants to fight terrorism, but we have to do it in away that protects American freedom.”
    ― Bernie Sanders
    tags: repeal-of-the-patriot-act-debate
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: defend
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    Michael Moore
    “I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.”
    ― Michael Francis Moore, Here Comes Trouble
    tags: democracy
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