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    Stuart Aken
    “Write from the heart, edit from the head,”
    ― Stuart Aken
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    Stuart Aken
    “Knowledge, like money and muck (manure), serves us best when spread evenly.”
    ― Stuart Aken
    tags: knowledge, money, muck
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    Penny Grubb
    “One of the key things is learning which bits of life you don't need to take seriously. Usually far more than you expect.”
    ― Penny Grubb
    tags: inspirational-success-failure
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Jane Friedman
    “Marketing is not what lures a writer to this pursuit. Marketing is the adversary that arrives smuggled inside the Trojan Horse of one’s creative impulse.”
    ― Jane Friedman
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    Anne McCaffrey
    “A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.”
    ― Anne McCaffrey
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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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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Jim Rohn
    “Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.”
    ― Jim Rohn
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    “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
    ― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
    tags: bible, love
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    Helen Keller
    “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: by-anne-sullivan, emotions, feelings
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    Helen Keller
    “When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Helen Keller
    “Literature is my Utopia”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Helen Keller
    “People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: life, thinking
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    Helen Keller
    “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: collaboration, life, teamwork
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Niyi Osundare
    “One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into
    a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.
    Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,
    physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.”
    ― Niyi Osundare
    tags: obsession, writing, writing-philosophy
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    Stuart Aken
    “If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.”
    ― Stuart Aken
    tags: knowledge, power
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: possibility
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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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    Philip K. Dick
    “The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
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    Ian McEwan
    “Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and the beginning of morality”
    ― Ian McEwan
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    Stuart Aken
    “Evil people rely on the acquiescence of naive good people to allow them to continue with their evil.”
    ― Stuart Aken
    tags: evil, good, naive
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    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke
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    John Locke
    “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.”
    ― John Locke
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    John Locke
    “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
    ― John Locke
    tags: actions, interpretation
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    John Locke
    “To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”
    ― John Locke
    tags: truth
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    Albert Einstein
    “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor
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    Albert Einstein
    “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, respect
    13430 likes



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