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    Ray Bradbury
    “A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
    tags: humor
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Lao Tzu
    “Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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    Yamamoto Tsunetomo
    “If by setting one’s heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way.”
    ― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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    Voltaire
    “We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: life, waiting
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    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    Mark Twain
    “The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: inspirational, oscar-wilde
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    Nikola Tesla
    “One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: insanity, sanity
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    C.S. Friedman
    “Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.”
    ― C.S. Friedman, Feast of Souls
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    Akira Kurosawa
    “In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
    ― Akira Kurosawa
    tags: insanity, madness, sanity
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Tanith Lee
    “What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.”
    ― Tanith Lee, Delirium's Mistress
    tags: immortality, love
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    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #15
    “Choosing to accept yourself is a political act. An act of liberation.”
    ― Francesca Martínez, What the **** is Normal?!
    tags: body-confidence, body-image, confidence, disability, disabled, otherness, self-acceptance, self-love
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: fantasy, insanity, madness, normal, reality, rothfuss
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    Tanith Lee
    “I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.”
    ― Tanith Lee, Biting the Sun
    tags: light-heartedness, misfortune, optimism
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    And in the past few years, we've been able to propagate this lie even further via social media. You may have seen images like this one: "The only disability in life is a bad attitude." Or this one: "Your excuse is invalid." Indeed. Or this one: "Before you quit, try!" These are just a couple of examples, but there are a lot of these images out there. You know, you might have seen the one, the little girl with no hands drawing a picture with a pencil held in her mouth. You might have seen a child running on carbon fiber prosthetic legs. And these images, there are lots of them out there, they are what we call inspiration porn. (Laughter) And I use the term porn deliberately, because they objectify one group of people for the benefit of another group of people. So in this case, we're objectifying disabled people for the benefit of nondisabled people. The purpose of these images is to inspire you, to motivate you, so that we can look at them and think, "Well, however bad my life is, it could be worse. I could be that person."

    But what if you are that person?”
    ― Stella Young
    tags: disability, disability-porn, disability-quotes, inequality, inspirational-porn, it-could-be-worse, objectifying-people
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
    tags: contradiction, longing, love, solitude
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    Voltaire
    “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: guilt
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    Lao Tzu
    “If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
    tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, attitude, axiom, axioms, bitch, bitches, childfree, childless, deep, dictum, dictums, disability, disabled, epigram, epigrams, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, philosopher, please, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish-selfishness, society, south-africa, south-african, subhuman, thought-provoking, thoughtful, upset, upsetting
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    Mark Twain
    “I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: mark-twain
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    Alan Alda
    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    ― Alan Alda
    tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind
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    Tanith Lee
    “Free of me, I was whole.”
    ― Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned
    tags: detachment, freedom, wholeness
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    Voltaire
    “Love truth, but pardon error.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: conservatism, mark-twain, politics, twain
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    C.S. Friedman
    “Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.”
    ― C.S. Friedman, In Conquest Born
    tags: political-science, sci-fi
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: clarity, honesty, oscar-wilde, words, writing
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    Lao Tzu
    “Success is as dangerous as failure.
    Hope is as hollow as fear.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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