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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
    Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
    Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
    Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
    Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
    Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
    Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: denial, honesty, truth
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Alan Moore
    “Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: on-fiction, parables, storytelling
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Scott Lynch
    “Those prancing little pants-wetters come here to learn the colorful and gentlemanly art of fencing, with its many sporting limitations and its proscriptions against dishonorable engagements. You on the other hand, you are going to learn how to kill men with a sword.”
    ― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
    tags: fencing, gentleman, killing, prancing, swords
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    Scott Lynch
    “Advice," Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.”
    ― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
    tags: life-experience, wisdom
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: enemies, friendship, judgement
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    Scott Lynch
    “So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.”
    ― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
    tags: conundrum, robbers
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    Scott Lynch
    “You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.”
    ― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: achievement, happiness, wealth, wisdom
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: action, inaction, perseverance, progress
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: education, government, political-philosophy, public-duty, voting
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: capitalism, democracy, fascism
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.”
    ― Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    tags: economics, greed
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: fdr, sufficient, want
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.”
    ― Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    tags: boats, books, ideas, sailing, ships
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward
    tags: perseverance, trial-and-error, trying
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
    Freedom”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: kindness, nation
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    “Competition has been shown to be useful
    up to a certain point and no further,
    but cooperation, which is the thing
    we must strive for today,
    begins where competition leaves off.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: competition, cooperation
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