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#1

“there are elements of truth in all great fiction”
― Teresa Medeiros, Goodnight Tweetheart

#2

“There are two ways to remove a Band-Aid : slowly and painfully, or quickly and painfully. Your choice.”
― John Wood, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children

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#3

“I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: bean, ender, ender-wiggin, strategy

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#4

“Remember, the enemy's gate is down.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: ender

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#5

“I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God."
"Then who are you?"
"The personnel officer who hired God.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

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#6

“Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.”
― Teresa Medeiros, Goodnight Tweetheart

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#7

“A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.”
― Teresa Medeiros, Goodnight Tweetheart

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#8

“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the Universe together into one garment for us.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: books, bradbury, fahrenheit-451, magic, ray-bradbury

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#9

“That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: dying, risks

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#10

“Mistakes can be profited by Man, when i was young I showed my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#11

“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: imagination, quality, skill, writers, writing

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#12

“To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#13

“Are you happy?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: happiness

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#14

“Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

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#15

“One person can keep a secret, but not two.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

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#16

“You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

tags: research

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#17

“Going outside is highly overrated.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

tags: aa-17-32, anorak-s-almanac

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#18

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#19

“There's only so far you can push a horse before it collapses”
― Ekaterina Sedia, Heart of Iron

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#20

“God has a way of guiding us sometimes”
― Ekaterina Sedia, Heart of Iron

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#21

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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#22

“A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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#23

“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: learning, science

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#24

“If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.”
― Frank Herbert, The Dune Storybook

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#25

“Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: epigram, evasion, trap

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#26

“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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#27

“We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.”
― Frank Herbert

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#28

“Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: friends, parting

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#29

“Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: critical-thinking, depression, despair, leadership, strategy

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#30

“Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some due process of law. Always do it for an overriding purpose—and know your purpose!”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: baron-harkonnen

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