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    Sylvester McCoy
    “There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream, people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.”
    ― Sylvester McCoy
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    Barack Obama
    “No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.”
    ― Barack Obama
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Bei Dao
    “In the world I am
    Always a stranger
    I do not understand its language
    It does not understand my silence”
    ― Bei Dao
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    Sasha Grey
    “What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.”
    ― Sasha Grey
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    Megan McCafferty
    “Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it’s too homo for them to handle.”
    ― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts
    tags: boys, friendship, girls
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    Megan McCafferty
    “You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.”
    ― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts
    tags: humor
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
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    Stephen Colbert
    “Agnostics are just atheists without balls.”
    ― Stephen Colbert, I Am America
    tags: atheism
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    George Carlin
    “By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor
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    George Carlin
    “I'm completely in favor of the
    separation of Church and State.
    ... These two institutions screw us up enough
    on their own, so both of them together is
    certain death.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: organized-religion, politics, religion
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    Jonathan Swift
    “When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

    [Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
    ― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays
    tags: dunces, genius, stupidity
    529 likes

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    Will Rogers
    “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: advice, funny, reticence, silence
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ
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    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, self-determination
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Youth is wasted on the young.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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    Lisa Genova
    “She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.”
    ― Lisa Genova, Still Alice
    tags: butterflies, inspirational, life
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    E.B. White
    “It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: inspirational, prize, win, winner, winning
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    David Foster Wallace
    “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: books, infinite-jest
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    H.G. Wells
    “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
    tags: jealousy, morality
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, woman
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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    Thomas Paine
    “It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
    ― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
    tags: belief, bible, cruel, cruelty, murder, rapine, the-bible
    392 likes

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    Jim Goad
    “Mean people suck”
    ― Jim Goad
    tags: people
    28 likes



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