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#1

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: connection, evolution, humanity, humility, life, love, meaning, people, purpose, vastness

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#2

“but the only means of fighting a plague is—common decency.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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#3

“Even if I argue for peace; even if I act to bring about peace. If I myself am not peaceful then nothing will come of it.”
― Noriyuki Ueda, Be Angry

tags: noriyuki-ueda, peace, the-dalai-lama

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#4

“Eight forces sustain creation:
Movement and stillness,
Solidification and fluidity,
Extension and contraction,
Unification and division.
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.”
― Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace

tags: creation, eight, life, morihei-ueshiba, peace

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#5

“You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk, even the breeze stops in the trees. To me there is always an air of expectation about that evening stillness.”
― H.G. Wells , The Time Machine

tags: dusk, expectation, h-g-wells, stillness, the-time-machine

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#6

“Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: help

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#7

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#8

“In fact they did to others that which they would not they should do to them— that grand principle of immortality upon which rests the whole art of war.”
― Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

tags: morality

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#9

“Labeling automatically leads to false conclusions and wrong assumptions about others.”
― Alan G. Fields, Human Psychology 202: Understanding How People Really Think So That You Know How To Deal With Them

tags: alan-fields, assumptions, labeling, prejudice, wrong

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#10

“Terror is the widening of perspective and perception. The horror was in knowing I was swimming down to a place most of us leave when we get out of diapers and into training pants. I could see it on Ollie’s face, too. When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.”
― Stephen King

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#11

“Crazy isn't the best word; perhaps I just can't think of the proper one. But there were these people who had lapsed into a complete stupor without benefit of beer, wine, or pills. They stared at you with blank and shiny doorknob eyes.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

tags: eyes, shock, the-mist

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#12

“King’s voice rose to a rough shout; his hand shot out and gripped Roland’s wrist with amazing strength.
“Finish the job!”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

tags: finish-the-job, stephen-king, the-dark-tower

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#13

“If you are not willing to be a little crazy, go about your business.”
― Harold Courlander, The African

tags: crazy, funny, harold-courlander, jaeger, pagan, the-african, wes

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#14

“Yes I am a little bit crazy. But the rest of the human race is mad.”
― Harold Courlander, The African

tags: crazy, funny, harold-courlander, mad, the-african

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#15

“A story is like a feather blowed around by the wind. Some folks see that feather and say, “Oh, there’s a feather,” that’s all. One day a man pick that feather up and weave it into his gbo, the thing that protect his house from bad spirits. The same way with a story. One day a man picks it up and makes it his own. Then it is true.”
― Harold Courlander, The African

tags: african, harold-courlander, lesson, meaning, understanding, wisdom, worth

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#16

“I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race—that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: human-kind, human-race, story

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#17

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: power-of-words

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#18

“Don’t punish yourself,” she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#19

“Somewhere inside her were the souls of words. They climbed out and stood beside her.”
― Mark Zusak

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#20

“His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible.
He planted them day and night, and cultivated them.
He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... it was a nation of farmed thoughts.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: buzz-words, free-thinking, identity-politics, indoctrination, markus-zusak, parroting, sheep, the-book-thief, words

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#21

“So many humans.
So many colors.

They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on top of each other. There is air like plastic, a horizon like setting glue. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking, and there are soft, coal-colored clouds, beating like black hearts.
And then.
There is death.
Making his way through all of it.
On the surface: unflappable, unwavering.
Below: unnerved, untied, and undone.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: death, humans, markus-zusak, the-book-thief, tired

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#22

“Now more than ever, 33 Himmel Street was a place of silence, and it did not go unnoticed that the Duden Dictionary was completely and utterly mistaken, especially with its related words.

Silence was not quiet or calm, and it was not peace.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#23

“A culture of change can never be created by behavioral strategy alone. Peace—whether at home, work, or between peoples—is invited only when an intelligent outward strategy is married to a peaceful inward one.”
― The Arbinger Institute, The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict

tags: change, culture, peace, strategy, the-anatomy-of-peace

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#24

“Because most who are trying to put an end to injustice only think of the injustices they believe they themselves have suffered. Which means that they are concerned not really with injustice but with themselves. They hide their focus on themselves behind the righteousness of their outward cause.”
― The Arbinger Institute, The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict

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#25

“Come, Death, so subtly veiled that I
Thy coming know not, how or when,
Lest it should give me life again
To find how sweet it is to die.”
― Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

tags: death, don-quixote, life, miguel-de-cervantes

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#26

“It is apparent that the mere knowledge that a man was either a camp guard or a prisoner tells us almost nothing. Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn. The boundaries between groups overlapped, and we must not try to simplify matters by saying that these men were angels and those were devils.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: devil, frankl, human, humanity, kindness, man, viktor

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#27

“As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.”
― Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace

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#28

“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
per
G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

tags: authors, preface, reading, warning

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#29

“redefining the goal of science: our aim is to formulate a set of laws that enables us to predict events only up to the limit set by the uncertainty principle.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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#30

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

tags: death, humor, life

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